Subject: Re: bug#22669: loading term/xterm.elc loads cl-lib at runtime

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:37:46 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:57:00 -0500
> 
> Loading term/xterm.elc loads cl-lib at runtime.
> This means that cl-lib is loaded at startup in "emacs -Q -nw", which is
> undesirable.

Why is that undesirable?

How is xterm.el different from any other package which requires
cl-lib?