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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>>> I seems to have 'nil' as one of the members of the list
>>> 'load-path'. Being this the case package.el breaks while defining a
>>> custom variable. Attached is the patch for this.
>
> CY> Thanks, applied.
>
> Isn't that indicating another problem in the user setup?  I think it's
> better to issue a message than to just ignore nil paths.

No, load-path allows nil; that means the default directory.