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Say Added by package.el

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From: Tassilo Horn <tsdh <at> gnu.org>
To: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>
Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, 30506 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30506: Say Added by package.el
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 20:48:45 +0200

積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org> writes:

>>> In one's .emacs file, one might find
>>> 
>>> ;; Added by Package.el.  This must come before configurations of
>>> ;; installed packages.  Don't delete this line.  If you don't want it,
>>> ;; just comment it out by adding a semicolon to the start of the line.
>>> ;; You may delete these explanatory comments.
>>> (package-initialize)
>>> 
>>> Well it should say Added by package.el . There is no Package.el on the
>>> system and the user will spend a long time looking for it.
>
> LI> Emacs no longer adds this stuff to .emacs, so I'm closing this bug report.
>
> Are you saying it is now safe to remove those lines from .emacs?
> emacs-version "26.1"
> and there still is a
> $ dlocate package.elc
> emacs-common: /usr/share/emacs/26.1/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.elc
> lurking on disk.

package.el[c] is still there, but it doesn't add the above comment and
code to the user's init file.

Bye,
Tassilo

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