Subject: bug#21703: adding package archives after calling package-initialize lists all their packages as "new"

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:26:40 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

>> It's clearly a bug, and it's made worse in Emacs-27 where
>> package-initialize is called automatically before reading ~/.emacs.
>> IOW, I think "this" needs to be fixed before Emacs-27.1.
>
> I just installed a patch which should reduce the impact of this problem
> in Emacs-27.1: the problem still occurs if you setq package-archives
> after calling package-initialize, but at least you can now setq
> package-archives in your ~/.emacs rather than having to do it in your
> early-init.el.

Is there more to be done here, or is this a sufficient solution to the
issue?

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