Async Package.el Feedback

[raman]

Async  behavior for package is a welcome arrival,  here is some hopefully 
useful feedback on  making things better -- especially when upgrading a large 
number of packages at one shot.


0. On startup, Emacs still appears to block while  loading the gpg bits for the 
various archives.

1. Even though installs happen asynchronously, there is a large amount of 
chatter in the Messages area -- can that be silenced?

2. This is a admittedly a special case: For many years, my emacs-startup file 
is called emacs-startup.el and is versioned by git -- ~!/.emacs is a symlink.

The code in package.el that adds the (package-initialize) to the top  of the 
startup file appears to go open the startup file each  time to  check if its 
magic cookie is present at the top -- so in my case, each package update caused 
the yes/no prompt -- perhaps remember that the cookie is added via a lisp var 
(hopefully customizable by the user) 
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