Re: emacs-29 acd462b0306: ; Improve the use-package manual

[John Wiegley]

>>>>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> It would also be nice to have user options like
>> 'use-package-always-defer' enabled by default, but that will certainly
>> break a number of configurations.

> Those users can always (setq use-package-always-defer nil) to recover the
> old behavior.

This should *not* be enabled by default.

Basically, `:demand` and `:defer` are considered overrides, which basically
short-circuit the intelligent in use-package that figures out when a deferred
load would offer the most benefit. The `-always-` variables cause these
overrides to be applied globally, but this is almost always a bad choice,
since it means giving up one of the reasons why use-package exists in the
first place: to figure out when things should be deferred, but not deferring
them when it's unhelpful.

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