Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization

[Artur Malabarba]

>> Maybe `package-load-list' should have a nil default value instead of all
>> and once package-initialize run, it could set it to 'all if it don't
>> find a customized value.
>> This with not help the real time setting of this var (no way to unload),
>> but may solve the problem at startup.
>
> Seems it is working fine with this:
>
> 1) default value of package-load-list => nil
> 2) customize yourself package-load-list e.g => ' (all)
> 3) Add at beginning of package-initialize someting like:
>     (unless package-load-list
>        (setq package-load-list '(all)))
>
> When starting emacs the value of package-load-list before calling
> package-initialize is '(all).

I don't understand how this will solve the "package-initialize is
called too late" issue. People who try to configure a package in their
init file will still run into errors until  "(package-initialize)" is
called.