Re: unconditionally loading help-fns.el

[Richard M. Stallman]

    And since leim-list.el uses eval-after-load very early during startup,

How does it do that?  All I see are calls to register-input-method,
which does not seem to call eval-after-load.

    An unintended consequence of the recent change to load-history is that
    eval-after-load now uses locate-library, which happens to be autoloaded from
    help-fns.el.

We should change something there.  Perhaps move locate-library
into subr.el.