From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el should be preloaded
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 20:09:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87iq0j2pf7.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwrp2gzve.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:24:54 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> This was briefly mentioned before
>
>> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2010-06/msg00634.html
>
>> But it is loaded in every normal startup, whether or not I have any
>> packages installed. Surely it is impossible to tell if I have any
>> packages to load without loading package.el to search for them; so I
>> don't see any reason not to preload it.
>
> I agree we should preload it. But we should do it by splitting the part
> that need to be preloaded into package-hooks.el.
I looked into this, but it turns out that most of package.el would need
to be preloaded. Instead, I tweaked the code startup.el to check more
aggressively for local package directories, so that package.el won't be
loaded if no packages are installed.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-31 0:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 7:41 package.el should be preloaded Glenn Morris
2010-10-28 7:57 ` Glenn Morris
2010-10-28 14:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-10-31 0:09 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2010-11-01 1:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-01 15:01 ` Chong Yidong
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