Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > I think the proposed solution satisfies these requirements.  The 2nd
>> > init file is only needed if you want to tweak package initialization
>> > by putting Lisp code into that 2nd file.
>> Breaking the ability to do such tweaking with the init file we already
>> have is insane.

Actually, it doesn't really break it.  All it does really (assuming you
don't use the new early-init.el file) is that packages in
~/.emacs.d/elpa will be automatically activated before ~/.emacs
is loaded.

So if you set package-user-dir in your ~/.emacs presumably you don't
have any packages in ~/.emacs.d/elpa and hence it won't make much of
a difference: you can still set package-user-dir in your ~/.emacs and
then call package-initialize.


        Stefan