From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
"emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2020 21:45:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR06MB65771ADB0BE0E29118BE93AD96DF0@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvwnx9zli6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2020 14:44:38 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Set `package-load-list`.
>> Is it up to user to serialize this list to disk for next session or
>> is it somehow done on the user behalf?
>
> It's assumed it's manually set in the user's init file or via Custom, yes.
>
> For example, I locally disable AUCTeX as follows:
>
> (setq package-load-list '((auctex nil) all))
>
>> If user disabled a package, and generated new autoloads, and then
>> there were new packages installed in site repository, how would Emacs
>> know which are disabled and which are just new ones?
>
> If `package-load-list` says it's disabled, then it's disabled, and if
> not, then it's not. I guess I don't understand the question.
>
>> 1. is probably trivial, since package.el already can do that. It
>> just needs to call package-quickstart-refresh from few more places.
>
> Right.
>
>> 2. as well
>
> Indeed.
>
>> 3. will need some extra code, mostly or only in startup.el
>
> It also needs extra code in `package.el` when creating
> `package-quickstart.el` to record the mtimes.
>
> BTW, other cases where the `package-quickstart.el` needs to be recreated
> is when the user changes `package-load-list` or
> `package-directory-list`, so we may also want to remember the values of
> those vars when creating the `package-quickstart.el`. But this part is
> more tricky: it can be perfectly normal for the users to set those vars
> in their init file, i.e. after `package-quickstart.el` is loaded (it's
> actually one of the benefits of using `package-quickstart.el`: you don't
> need to set `package.el`'s vars in your `early-init.el`), so we should
> not check those vars for freshness before loading
> `package-quickstart.el` but rather later.
>
>> 4. will need some extra code in package.el, maybe in startup.el too, not sure
>
> AFAIK there's nothing to be done for 4.
I think I like 4. best so far.
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Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-18 10:56 bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup arthur.miller
2020-12-18 15:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-18 16:05 ` arthur.miller
2020-12-18 16:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-18 22:58 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2020-12-18 23:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-19 16:34 ` arthur.miller
2020-12-19 17:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-19 18:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-19 20:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-20 2:47 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-20 14:23 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-20 14:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-20 15:13 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-20 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-20 22:23 ` arthur miller
2020-12-20 23:35 ` arthur miller
2020-12-20 23:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-20 23:46 ` arthur miller
2020-12-21 16:32 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-21 17:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-21 17:32 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-21 18:16 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-21 18:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-21 19:51 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-21 18:31 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-21 19:45 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-21 20:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-21 20:58 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-21 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-21 23:15 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-22 3:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-22 11:03 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-22 14:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-22 16:55 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-22 17:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-22 18:24 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-22 19:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-22 20:45 ` Arthur Miller [this message]
2020-12-20 23:45 ` arthur miller
2020-12-19 21:12 ` arthur miller
2020-12-19 21:16 ` arthur miller
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2018-03-19 14:26 Stefan Monnier
2018-03-26 13:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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