Subject: bug#16813: 24.3.50; `package--initialized'

From: Drew Adams <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 11:10:04 -0800 (PST)

..should not be considered internal.  Should be documented.

It is reasonable to use this function in a check, before trying to use
things from package.el.  Look at `describe-package' for an example.
There is no reason to assume that package.el is the only code that can
make use of such a check.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-mingw32)
 of 2014-02-11 on ODIEONE
Bzr revision: 116410 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/c/Devel/emacs/binary --enable-checking=yes,glyphs
 'CFLAGS=-O0 -g3' LDFLAGS=-Lc:/Devel/emacs/lib
 CPPFLAGS=-Ic:/Devel/emacs/include'