Re: use-package :custom causes gnus to load

[Bartosz Kaczyński]

Juan José García-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com> writes:

> Your below example shows using :config and an explicit setq statement to
> change the value of that variable. I found that this approach *does not*
> trigger loading gnus, but using the :custom field of use-package does. I
> cannot really fathom why.

So you want the variable set, but without invoking Gnus? What's your
purpose in doing so?

According to documentation:

>:config can be used to execute code after a package is loaded.

So, the `:custom` option executes code before the package is loaded.