Re: Friendly discussion about (package-initialize)

[Stefan Monnier]

> I'm likely missing something, but why is `package-initialize' in user
> space at all?
> Can it not simply be called internally with the first instance of a
> package customisation in the user's init.el file (or startup.el,
> interactively or wherever)?

Yes, that would be ideal.  This needs a more declarative way to
customize packages, tho, and currently I think we still want to support
the more "imperative" form of customizations.


        Stefan