Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?

[Radon Rosborough]

> This said, if a package's activation gets in the way of the user, I'd
> generally consider it to be a bug in that package (similar to the fact
> that if (require <foo>) has undesirable effects it's usually a bug in
> <foo>).

Activation of packages is a significant performance hit. It's
therefore not a good idea to be activating superfluous packages. JW
has told me that one of the reasons his Emacs configuration does not
use package.el is that activating packages was too slow.