Re: use-package :custom causes gnus to load

[Bartosz Kaczyński]

Juan José García-Ripoll <juanjose.garciaripoll@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,

Hi,

>
> I have a stupid peeve with my current configuration, which relies on
> `use-package` to defer loading of `gnus`, but still configuring relevant
> parameters.
>
> I have found that all of the :custom statements are fine, except for
>
> :custom
> (gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>
> It seems this custom statement triggers loading of gnus. I found this
> can be used by replacing this statement with
>
> :config
> (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
>
> However, it is less than satisfactory.

Why is that?

(use-package gnus
  :init
  (add-hook 'gnus-group-mode-hook 'gnus-topic-mode)

  :config
  (setq gnus-select-method '(nnnil ""))
    (setq gnus-secondary-select-methods
        '((nntp "news.gmane.io")
  --snip--

I don't have any issues with this configuration.

>
> Any clue about this?