Subject: Re: bug#62767: 29.0.90; [PATCH] *lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el: set variables after info package

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2023 12:15:29 +0300

> From: Philip Kaludercic <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:07:54 +0000
> 
> lin Sun <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > The package.el will always require the entire `info.el` on its package
> > activating function.
> > Using the `with-eval-after-load` to arrange the work can avoid the
> > unnecessary loading the `info` package.
> 
> Note that this is not the only place where info is required.  If this is
> an acceptable solution (which I am not sure since `with-eval-after-load'
> is something I usually encounter in user configurations), then we should
> think about consistently addressing the issue:

What exactly are the problems with requiring info.el?  We require
packages that define some function in gazillion other places, so what
makes this one case special?