Re: bug#30854: 27.0.50; Speeding up package.el startup

[Pankaj Jangid]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> But yes, I think it would make a lot of sense to split package.el into
> the part that manages installation/updates/... and the part that just
> activates the packages installed and to preload the second part.  Also
> exposing the API of that second part might encourage other package
> managers to make use of it.

I think something like ‘use-package’ will be part of next major
release. At that time we can roll out a package installation part for
use-package to depend upon. And of course for backward compatibility of
user scripts.

Yes package installation/updates should be independent of package
loading infrastruction.