[O] Package System questions ?

[David Masterson]

Am I reading the startup process right?

In GNU Emacs v26+, it appears that package-initialize is run out of
startup.el which is run (I think) before the various "init" files.
Therefore, it is hardcoding the assumptions that:

1. The standard packages are in site-lisp or elpa directories.
2. The user packages are in .emacs.d/elpa directory.

This means that, if you set up a number of package-archives to install
packages from (such as "melpa"), all of the packages must be installed
in "elpa" directories in your local setup.  This would seem to be a
configuration issue.

True?
--
David