Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> I think Drew meant to remove the *usage* of the hooks.  That is, remove
>> cases of (add-hook 'foo-load-hook ...), before deprecating foo-load-
>> hook itself.
>
> Yes.  Sorry if that wasn't clear.  That should be sufficient for
> testing the (later) removal of the variables, as far as their
> usage by vanilla Emacs code is concerned.

Thanks for clearing that up.

I've attached a patch removing all uses of load-hooks that I could
find in the tree.

In my opinion, the patch demonstrates clearly that, in every case
where we use load-hooks, eval-after-load makes the code both clearer
and more succinct.

I don't mind if we have a certain grace period between installing this
and declaring the variables obsolete.  I don't see that it's necessary
to wait until Emacs 29.1 to do it, though.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas