Re: Summary and next steps for (package-initialize)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:27:33 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> If the rationale for the decision was only that you want to treat package.el 
> as a core part of Emacs rather than
> as an extension then that's a bad rationale. You don't need to turn something 
> on just because it is a core part
> of Emacs.

I don't really understand what this argument is about.  The call to
package-initialize does nothing at all, unless you installed some
packages with package.el.  So it is still an opt-in feature, because
the user must decide to install packages for it to do anything.