GNU bug report logs - #73609
29.1; use-package overwrites custom variables in byte-compiled files

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Message #37 received at 73609-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com
Cc: 73609-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, johnw <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#73609: 29.1;
 use-package overwrites custom variables in byte-compiled files
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 11:57:21 +0200

> From: abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 08:49:30 +0000
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 73609 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 
> > I think this one has to be “won’t fix”, indeed, with a note in the
> > documentation about possible bad interactions between :custom settings and
> > byte-compiled files…
> 
> Just to mention that a fix on the user side would be to always require use-package to force the loading of the theme before other user code is executed. Of course this defeats the purpose of lazy-loading use-package that byte compiling would normally offer.
> 
> An easy “fix” from the use-package side, with virtually zero side effects, would be to move the loading of the theme into a small module that the user can always require without loading all of use-package.

Thanks, I've now updated the use-package manual with the relevant
information (on the emacs-30 branch), and I'm therefore closing this
bug.

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