> BTW, in a subsequent patch we could rename this to
> package-initialized, so the name reflects what the variable contains
> rather than what it's used for.
I don't think that's a good idea, since the most common usage of this
variable will be
(setq package-initialized nil)
in the early init file, and that doesn't make much sense from a
readability perspective (are we asserting that package.el wasn't
initialized?).
> This is not used from C code, so make it a plain old defvar in
> startup.el.
Done. New patch attached.
0001-Add-early-init-file-stop-package-initialize-insertio.patch