Re: Customizable modes and package.el

[Ted Zlatanov]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:45:18 +0200 Achim Gratz <address@hidden> wrote: 

AG> Artur Malabarba writes:
>> If that's the path we're taking, I'd rather simply have
>> package-initialize be called before loading the init file, instead of
>> after.

AG> You can't do that, it breaks things when you need to set variables
AG> before the packages get initialized.

Can you be more specific about when that may happen?  What variables
need to be set before calling `package-initialize'?  Perhaps these cases
can be handled in clever ways if they only affect a minority?  I don't
know, so please explain gently :)

Thanks
Ted