Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization

[Artur Malabarba]

> Nic Ferrier <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > My preference would be to add a post-package-init.el thereby not
> > changing the defined semantics of the current system at all.
>
> That would be good for backwards compatibility, but won't solve the
> problem of people asking why a function in their init.el is undefined
> when they installed the package providing it.

Precisely. Whichever solution is adopted, it must work out of the box for people who do nothing but add (require 'some-package) to their init file. The goal here is to find the smallest semantics change that affects the fewest people, given that restriction.