On Apr 12, 2015 10:02 PM, "Jorgen Schäfer"
> (dolist (dir (directory-files "~/.emacs.d/elpa" t "\\`[^.]"))
>   (when (file-directory-p dir)
>     (add-to-list 'load-path dir)
>     (dolist (autoload (directory-files dir t "-autoloads.el\\'"))
>       (load autoload nil t))))
>
> This would solve the problem of users being confused because their
> init file can not access packages they installed, allow all the heavy
> package initialization to happen after the init file is processed,

Slightly off topic, but I'm curious to know how heavy that snippet is. I
always thought that loading the autoload files corresponded to most of the
legwork in package-initialize. But I may well be wrong.