On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Radon Rosborough <radon.neon@gmail.com> wrote:

And, as Eli already pointed out, for most Emacs users there *is* only
a single init file. It's only if you want to do advanced programming
that you need to use the second one, which need not exist at all.

​That sounds fine.  When I mentioned 'package-initialize', I meant that users of packages who would call that in their init files should not need to have a second init file just to use packages and have them load properly.

Bob