Re: bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup

[Stefan Monnier]

>> But yes, I think it would make a lot of sense to split package.el into the 
>> part
>> that manages installation/updates/... and the part that just activates
>> the packages installed and to preload the second part.
>> Also exposing the API of that second part might encourage other package
>> managers to make use of it.
>>
>>
>>         Stefan
> It seems you were correct.
> I just added (require 'package) and the startup time went t0 0.29+;

Thanks for confirming,

Would you be interested in trying to split package.el into the "core
part" needed for `package-activate-all` (and which we could then
preload), and the rest?


        Stefan