Subject: Re: bug#19603: 24.4.51; Improve emacs startup message.

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 00:16:31 +0300

On 01/15/2015 06:12 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Maybe the best option is to emit some
> message at startup in the following case:
> - there are packages installed.
> - the .emacs file is non-empty.
> - there is no call to package-initialize in the .emacs file.

But deferring packages initialization till after the init file has been 
loaded is a valid strategy.

Maybe instead `require' should be advised during init file loading to do 
something smart if the feature isn't found, but corresponds to a file in 
.emacs.d/elpa/**/.