Re: [PATCH] Only signal package.el warnings when needed

[João Távora]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 5:15 PM Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> > Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 10:39:16 +0000
> > Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019, 23:37 Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden wrote:
> >
> >  On 14/01/2019 17.13, Óscar Fuentes wrote:
> >  > Not to mention the noise it creates for those of us that occasionally
> >  > work with multiple Emacs versions and the same init files.
> >
> >  This is my main source of annoyance with the warning, thought that 
> > annoyance did not raise to the level
> >  of complaining about it in public until now :)
> >
> > Ditto :)
>
> I'm questioning the wisdom of adding non-trivial complexity on account
> of annoyances that "did not raise to the level of complaining about it
> in public".  Shouldn't we collect more experience regarding the
> current solution before we complicate it more?

That makes sense too.  To be honest, I have a commented out
definition of (package-initialize) in my init which works for me.
When I switch to Emacs 26.1 I remember to M-x package-initialize
and that solves it for me (because I don't use package.el much).

João Távora