From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:53:09 +0200 Organization: Emacs Helm Message-ID: <87619h8s5m.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427792040 1737 80.91.229.3 (31 Mar 2015 08:54:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 08:54:00 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 31 10:53:55 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycrvl-0006bJ-0r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:53:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37584 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycrvk-0000nh-DX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:53:52 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57841) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycrvg-0000nO-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:53:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycrvb-00016Q-Hg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:53:48 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:54180) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycrvb-00016C-Ar for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 04:53:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YcrvQ-0006L4-Jb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:53:32 +0200 Original-Received: from 37.160.230.45 ([37.160.230.45]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:53:32 +0200 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 37.160.230.45 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2015 10:53:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 37.160.230.45 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:h+MyKgb9osLSQARTlwPZluai0LM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:184596 Archived-At: Artur Malabarba writes: > Stefan kindly explains why it can't just be done before loading the init file: >> [...] the user may need/want to run some Elisp >> code of his own choosing *before* package-initialize is called. >> E.g. [...] set package-load-list and package-directory-list Why not adding a set function to these vars calling `package-initialize', so if one set these functions AFTER a `package-initialize' call `package-initialize' will be called again. Of course these vars have to be set with customize, not setq. -- Thierry Get my Gnupg key: gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 59F29997