Disabling loading of /etc/emacs/site-start.d?

Disabling loading of /etc/emacs/site-start.d?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

My Debian 10 distro has a number of files that are auto loaded from this
directory.  There are a number of files in here slowing down load time of
Emacs.

Do you folks just remove files from this system wide directory or use some
E-lisp code to preprocess which files are loaded?

Thanks

Re: Disabling loading of /etc/emacs/site-start.d?

[Alex Kost]

Hello,

Nicholas Papadonis (2020-03-20 18:16 -0400) wrote:

> My Debian 10 distro has a number of files that are auto loaded from this
> directory.  There are a number of files in here slowing down load time of
> Emacs.
>
> Do you folks just remove files from this system wide directory or use some
> E-lisp code to preprocess which files are loaded?

I just run "emacs --no-site-file" to get rid of any distro's
"user-friendly" settings.

-- 
Alex

Re: Disabling loading of /etc/emacs/site-start.d?

[Nicholas Papadonis]

Is there an ELISP command that can be used in .emacs vs the command line
argument?

Thanks

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 11:29 AM Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Nicholas Papadonis (2020-03-20 18:16 -0400) wrote:
>
> > My Debian 10 distro has a number of files that are auto loaded from this
> > directory.  There are a number of files in here slowing down load time of
> > Emacs.
> >
> > Do you folks just remove files from this system wide directory or use
> some
> > E-lisp code to preprocess which files are loaded?
>
> I just run "emacs --no-site-file" to get rid of any distro's
> "user-friendly" settings.
>
> --
> Alex
>

Re: Disabling loading of /etc/emacs/site-start.d?

[Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro]

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Hello Nicholas,

Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> writes:

> Is there an ELISP command that can be used in .emacs vs the command line
> argument?

Not that I could find in the documentation.  It makes sense to not be
possible; quoting from (info "(elisp) Startup Summary"):

  11. It loads the library ‘site-start’[...]

  12. It loads your init file[...].

Thus, even if it were such a Lisp expression it would be too late for 
its evaluation to have any effect.[1]


Footnotes: 

[1] In the future however (and in principle), we might have a mechanism
    to make all Lisp computing reversible and then that would be
    possible.[2]

[2] Granting your site-start doesn’t affect the external world in a
    irreversible way, of course.

-- 
Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF]
<http://oitofelix.freeshell.org/>

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