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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH] Fixing package-initialize, adding early init file |
Date: | Wed, 21 Feb 2018 03:16:04 -0500 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Might it be a good idea to have `package-initialize' signal a warning > if it's called multiple times? I hadn't considered this side effect of > the change, but at least it's easier to get users to remove > a duplicate call than to add a missing one. > > Are there ever circumstances where calling `package-initialize' more than > once makes sense? It can make sense if packages were added/removed/updated without Emacs's knowledge. So maybe we need something more targeted to ~/.emacs, by temporarily let-binding a package--within-init.el variable (this would also allow us to not only emit a message but even skip the execution of such a second call to package-initialize). Stefan
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