Re: Has eval-and-compile changed in emacs 27?

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Oh, I see: it's the (eval-when-compile (require 'url-parse)) because
  > apparently `url-parse` now ends up loading `json` somehow.

It's not a good thing for a package to load more other packages
unnecessarily.  If it happens just once, it is not a big deal.
But if many libraries do it, it could lead to a cascade of bloat.

Does url-parse need json all the time, or only in rare special cases?

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