Re: curious: need explicit package-initialize in recent v29.x

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 08:44:20 +0000
> 
> I track git Emacs.  Yesterday, I git pulled and built Emacs.  It
> wouldn't start with my init files.  -Q worked just fine.
> 
> After some debugging, it led me to adding the line
> 
> (package-initialize)
> 
> as the first line of my .emacs.  I do have an early-init.el file as
> well which configures the repositories to use.
> 
> Previously, it seemed that the package system was initialised by Emacs
> itself automatically between the evaluation of the early-init.el and
> .emacs files.  Has this changed or is my problem a symptom of something
> else?

What's your value of package-enable-at-startup?