Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization

[Artur Malabarba]

>> - package-load-list: Needs to be configured before.
>
> If the user does not want to enable certain packages, they can move
> them out of ~/.emacs.d/elpa/. If necessary, they can move the packages
> into, say, ~/.emacs.d/held/ and run
> (package-load-directory "~/.emacs.d/held") after configuring this variable.

This sounds very inconvenient for those who don't want to activate a
specific package at startup, but want to keep it up-to-date with
package.el. Not to mention the package won't be seen by package.el and
so won't be considered when dependency checking.