Re: Why is custom--inhibit-theme-enable not t by default?

[Basil L. Contovounesios]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 21:14:49 -0700
>> From: address@hidden
>> 
>> A simple require of a package shouldn't have side effects, especially not
>> ones as drastic as changing the entire appearance of the program.
>
> I think themes are special in this regard: loading a theme activates
> it.

FWIW, you can load a theme without activating it by specifying a non-nil
NO-ENABLE argument to load-theme.

-- 
Basil