Autoloading side effects (was: Re: [BUG] org-mouse is activated without explicit require)

[Max Nikulin]

On 11/12/2022 16:45, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> We cannot do much about Emacs' handling of autoloads, but what we can
> (and should) do is changing org-mouse to become a global minor mode.
> Then, loading org-mouse will cause no side effects.

I am afraid, requirement that loading should not cause side effects is 
too strict and it will make usage inconvenient. Examples:
- ol-info calls `org-link-set-parameters'.
- org-protocol installs an advice for `server-visit-files'. (It should 
not be necessary, but currently Emacs does not provide a better option.)

However I agree that it is undesired when attempt to call interactive 
help causes side effects. I would say that in such cases loading of 
packages should be sandboxed and should not propagate to global scope.