His suggestion is to disable the loading+ initializing based on an
environment variable.
On Apr 12, 2015 4:56 AM, "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > initialization step in startup.el, completely bypassing issues like init
> > code possibly getting added multiple times to the file and the general
> > annoyance as this cluttering cannot be disabled at all and can happen at
> > every installation) and involves more work.
>
> We discussed this already.  There's the issue of configuring package.el
> before loading it and/or before calling package-initialize.
>
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>         Stefan
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