Re: pkg-autoloads.el vs. pkg-loaddefs.el

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>>> AFAIU, `package-activate' (and thus `package-activate-all') calls
>>> (package-activate-1 pkg-desc nil 'deps).
>> The reasoning is that this won't be called after some `org*.el` files
>> have already been loaded.
> I have seen configs with package-activate-all being not the first thing
> in the config.
> Some configs even do package loading in early-init.

I currently consider these cases to be "the user's mistake".
Maybe we should provide some alternative for "late activation" which
does pass the `reload` argument?

We don't do that by default in an effort to try and keep startup time
under control and also because reloading is a hack which works only
partly and can even have unpredictable effects, so it's really much
better to try and avoid it in the first place.


        Stefan