Re: Various fixes for early init file changes

[Andy Moreton]

On Mon 19 Mar 2018, Radon Rosborough wrote:

>> There is another change we could consider: automatically removing the 
>> automatically-added call to package-initialize.
>
> We want to be careful to avoid unnecessary tampering with the user's
> init-file, since my annoyance with that was the whole reason I pushed
> this change through. That said, I think it would be reasonable to
> automagically remove it as long as it's accompanied by the "Added by
> Package.el" comment which identifies it as definitely not
> user-written.

It was a mistake to automatically add code to the user's init file.
Automatically deleting code from the user's init file is even worse - I
cannot imagine any circumstance in which automatic deletion is
acceptable.

    AndyM