GNU bug report logs - #21858
package-initialize: no good in .emacs!

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 03:19:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Merged with 28001, 30507

Found in version 25.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21858 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#21858: package-initialize: no good in .emacs!
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 15:46:46 +0100

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On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 4:17 AM, David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
wrote:

> > Symbol's function definition is void: package-initialize

Obviously you could work around it by adding

(unless (fboundp 'package-initialize) (defalias 'package-initialize
'ignore))

to your init file...

> This is not a good state of affairs...

...but I couldn't agree more with you about packages messing with the init
file. I *hate* custom for several reasons, and that's one of them.

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