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

[Arthur Miller]

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

>> I can also udate "user" functions of package.el (package-list,
>> package-refresh-contents etc) to check if package.el is initialized, and
>> if not they could call package-initialize on behalf of user, so end users
>> does not need to call pacakge-initialize themselves, neither in init
>> file or interactively. As I see now, some of them already do so, some don't.
>
> Indeed some calls to `package-initialize` are probably still missing.
> [ I don't know what you mean by `package-list`, OTOH.  ]
> Sometimes rather than add a call to it, it's better to rework the code
> so it doesn't require `package-initialize` to run before, tho.
>
> E.g. I can't see why `package-refresh-contents` would need
> `package-initialize` to run before it can do its job.
I was just looking hastily through the list of autloaded interactive
functions, but you are correct, it does not need it.