Re: elpa package loading problem?

[José A . Romero L .]

W dniu sobota, 2 czerwca 2012 18:44:29 UTC+2 użytkownik Xah Lee napisał:
> does anyone have problems with emacs package system?
> 
> recently, installed several packages with it: {“rainbow-mode”,
> “bookmark+”, “smex”, “expand-region”}.
(...)
> apps key, i get: “Symbol's function definition is void: smex”. If i
(...)
> Any insight on this?

AFAIK, ELPA relies heavily on correctly declared autoload cookies,
especially if you really want to avoid loading whole packages at
startup. From my own experience adapting SC to ELPA I know this is
not easy to get right from the beginning -- you, as a user, may end
needing to add the missing autoloads to the xxx-autoloads.el file
automatically generated by ELPA (this sucks big time, because your
added code is ditched away with every upgrade of the package). ELPA
works wonderfully well, but only if the authors of the packages you
happen to use did make that extra effort to get things right from the
start.

> for emacs 24, is this the way things are?

Yep, that's just the way it is. I'm afraid you'll have to submit a
few bug reports before things start working properly for you.

Cheers,
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José A. Romero L.
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