From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 17530@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type
Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:37:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87impta7ug.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8828b8fa-29e3-4888-928e-b25c92e4923d@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sun, 15 Sep 2019 07:00:37 -0700 (PDT)")
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> But at least in Emacs 26.3, the default is still
> `(all)'. For the record, this part of the problem
> hasn't been addressed:
>
>> If someone does not customize this or does
>> `package-initialize' in their init file before
>> loading `custom-file' then they might be in
>> for an unwelcome surprise, depending on what
>> packages they have locally.
>>
>> The default value would be better as nil, IMHO.
A default of nil would mean that no packages are loaded. So pretty much
anyone installing packages would have to customize it to `(all)' in
order to get their packages working. That sounds like a worse default.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-15 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 16:26 bug#17530: 24.4.50; `package-load-list': incorrect defcustom type Drew Adams
2014-05-19 16:33 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 0:29 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 14:00 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 15:37 ` Noam Postavsky [this message]
2019-09-15 21:27 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 21:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 22:05 ` Drew Adams
2019-09-15 22:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-09-15 23:38 ` Noam Postavsky
2019-09-16 1:18 ` Drew Adams
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