GNU bug report logs - #18829
25.0.50; (emacs) manual: relation between `package-initialize' and `require' & `load-path'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2014 15:28:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: fixed

Found in version 25.0.50

Fixed in version 26.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: 18829 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18829: 25.0.50; (emacs) manual: relation between `package-initialize' and `require' & `load-path'
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 16:49:02 +0200

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

> There is apparently a fair amount of confusion, especially by new users, about the relation between `require' and `load-path', on
> the one hand, and `package-initialize', on the other.  
>
> The doc for these is not together (which is normal), and it might help
> to (a) provide cross references and (b)

I've now done this...

> explicitly say that if you use `package-initialize' then you do
> (should) not need to explicitly adjust `load-path' and `require' the
> relevant code.

And this.

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