Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03/31/2015 03:29 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> The default of package-load-list is to enable everything, so the main
> use for package-load-list is to *prevent* initialization of
> some packages.
> IOW, the "setter" would have to *undo* some initializations, which is
> can't be done reliably.

Maybe, in the long run, a nicer approach would be to put the 
`custom-set-variables` form for the ELPA packages into a separate file, 
and load it after `package-initialize' was called.

I realize a variation of this has already been suggested, but this seems 
quite sane to me.

The downside would be that it won't help with existing entries in 
`custom-file', but if a user currently has package-related entries 
there, either their Emacs doesn't start, or the user already calls 
`package-initialize' earlier, or each entry doesn't really depend on 
respective package having been loaded.