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adding package archives after calling package-initialize lists all their packages as "new"

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 24467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, SK Kim <tttuuu888 <at> gmail.com>, 21703 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#21703: adding package archives after calling package-initialize lists all their packages as "new"
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2021 14:26:40 +0200

Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA> 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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