bug#19517: [SOLVED] recursive requires - the problem is not with AUCTeX

[Bernard Hurley]

On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 04:22:43PM +0100, Mosè Giordano wrote:
> 
> We have received in total two such reports (you were both using an
> unstable version of Emacs, for that matter), but no one has been able
> to trace the origin of the bug.
> 
The problem seems to be with use-package, which I have been using to manage my 
packages, not AUCTeX.  

use-package effectively inhibits loading the autoloads file and instead sets up 
autoloads itself.  This normally causes no problems, but in the case of AUCTeX 
the autoloads file contains code such as:

  (require 'tex-site)

that must be run _before_ the rest of the elpa initialisation is done.  Since 
there is no reason why a package should not initialise itelf like this, it is 
not a bug with AUCTeX.

Thanks for looking at this,

Bernard.