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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message. |
Date: | Thu, 15 Jan 2015 17:48:52 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> Maybe the best option is to emit some >> message at startup in the following case: >> - there are packages installed. >> - the .emacs file is non-empty. >> - there is no call to package-initialize in the .emacs file. > But deferring packages initialization till after the init file has been > loaded is a valid strategy. It interacts poorly with hand customizations in ~/.emacs which typically assume/need the packages to be initialized. Note that the equivalent initialization (i.e. loading the autoloads) is done (long) before loading the .emacs file for all the built-in packages. Stefan
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