Re: [External] : Re: Default custom file was: Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:17:12 +0800
> From: LdBeth <andpuke@foxmail.com>
> Cc: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
>       Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com>,
>       Robert Pluim
>  <rpluim@gmail.com>,
>       Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>       Stefan Kangas
>  <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
>       "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> >>>>> In <87bl0q8vfa.fsf@yahoo.com> 
> >>>>> Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Most people were certainly happy for at least the past decade.
> 
> I think saving custom set variables to init file somehow prevents
> using byte compiled init.el file effectively (unless the user hooks
> auto compile whenever it is changed by emacs). From that perspective,
> I'm happy to see that this behavior is to be changed.

Byte compiling init.el is not a very good idea; natively-compiling
them is an even worse idea.

So I'm not sure we should make that easier, because it makes easier
for people to make mistakes like that.