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24.5; package system not initializing

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From: Jerry Asher <ja2038 <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 24.5; package system not initializing
Date: Sun, 26 Jul 2015 21:09:48 -0700

On a fresh install of 24.5, I am not seeing the package system initialize.

package-enable-at-startup is t

and based on

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Packaging-Basics.html#Packaging-Basics


> Whenever Emacs starts up, it automatically calls the function package-initialize to load installed packages. This is done after loading the init file and abbrev file (if any) and before running after-init-hook (see Startup Summary). Automatic package loading is disabled if the user option package-enable-at-startup is nil.

I am not calling package-initialize.

Do I need to call package-initialize in 24.5? The documentation
implies I do not.

Thanks,

Jerry





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Message #8 received at 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Jerry Asher <ja2038 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21138: 24.5; package system not initializing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 02:25:17 -0400

Jerry Asher wrote:

> On a fresh install of 24.5, I am not seeing the package system initialize.

Works for me:

rm -rf /tmp/foo
mkdir /tmp/foo
HOME=/tmp/foo emacs-24.5
M-x list-packages RET
install "coffee-mode" as a random example
C-x C-c
HOME=/tmp/foo emacs-24.5 1.coffee
   -> buffer is in Coffee mode

Message #11 received at 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Jerry Asher <ja2038 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21138: 24.5; package system not initializing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 10:44:25 +0100

> Do I need to call package-initialize in 24.5? The documentation
> implies I do not.

You do not.

> On a fresh install of 24.5, I am not seeing the package system initialize.

What makes you think that?
What values do you get for `package--initialized` and for
`package-enable-at-startup` after Emacs has finished starting up?

Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21138: 24.5; package system not initializing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 21:29:38 +1000

Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> Do I need to call package-initialize in 24.5? The documentation 
>> implies I do not.
>
> You do not.
>
>> On a fresh install of 24.5, I am not seeing the package system 
>> initialize.
>
> What makes you think that?  What values do you get for 
> `package--initialized` and for `package-enable-at-startup` after 
> Emacs has finished starting up?

i'm on 24.5.2 (manually compiled on Debian Jessie x86_64), and 
when i comment out `package-initialize' from my init.el and start 
a non-daemonised instance of Emacs, startup doesn't fully complete 
due to `package-archives' being a void variable on which my config 
tries to use `add-to-list'. Then, commenting out such lines, i get 
errors on calls to things like `emms-all' - i have 
emms-20150519.736 installed from MELPA. After startup completes, 
`package--initialized' and `package-enable-at-startup' are both 
set to `t'.


Alexis.

Message #17 received at 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com>
To: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21138: 24.5; package system not initializing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 13:02:59 +0100

> i'm on 24.5.2 (manually compiled on Debian Jessie x86_64), and when i
> comment out `package-initialize' from my init.el and start a non-daemonised
> instance of Emacs, startup doesn't fully complete due to `package-archives'
> being a void variable on which my config tries to use `add-to-list'. Then,
> commenting out such lines, i get errors on calls to things like `emms-all' -
> i have emms-20150519.736 installed from MELPA. After startup completes,
> `package--initialized' and `package-enable-at-startup' are both set to `t'.

That's all expected. ;-)
In 24.5, by default, package-initialize is called at the *end* of
initialization. So packages have not yet been activated while your
init file is being loaded.

Message #22 received at 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21138: 24.5; package system not initializing
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2015 12:05:38 -0400

Alexis wrote:

> i'm on 24.5.2 (manually compiled on Debian Jessie x86_64), and when i
> comment out `package-initialize' from my init.el and start a
> non-daemonised instance of Emacs, startup doesn't fully complete due
> to `package-archives' being a void variable on which my config tries
> to use `add-to-list'. Then, commenting out such lines, i get errors on
> calls to things like `emms-all' - i have emms-20150519.736 installed
> from MELPA. After startup completes, `package--initialized' and
> package-enable-at-startup' are both set to `t'.

The documentation that you quoted in your initial report explained that
packages are initialized _after_ processing the init file. So if you
want to use a package in your init file, then yes, you need to manually
init the package system before doing so. If all you wanted to do was
manipulate package-archives, then you could require package, or use
customize, as for any other such variable.

Message #27 received at 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
To: 21138 <at> debbugs.gnu.org 
Subject: Re: bug#21138: 24.5; package system not initializing
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:09:46 +1000

Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:

> The documentation that you quoted in your initial report 
> explained that packages are initialized _after_ processing the 
> init file. So if you want to use a package in your init file, 
> then yes, you need to manually init the package system before 
> doing so.

i'm not the OP, but thanks, noted. :-)


Alexis.

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