Re: Calling (package-initialize) sooner during initialization

[Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer]

Hi,

has it been considered yet to simply support an optional

  ~/.emacs.d/pre-package-init.el

file that always gets executed before packages are initialized (just
like the current init.el), then packages get initialized, and then
init.el or ~/.emacs is loaded?

So startup looks like:

  1. Load ~/.emacs.d/pre-package-init.el if it exists.
  2. Initialize packages.
  3. Load ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el if one exists.

Are there any disadvantages to this approach?

Taylan


P.S.: We can even support a setting which further delays package
initialization, i.e. change the order of steps 2 and 3, if really
desired.  It should be as simple as setting a variable in
pre-package-init.el.