Subject: Re: bug#24467: 25.1; package

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:56:31 -0500

> 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.

        Stefan