> From: Krystian Samp <samp.kryst...@gmail.com> > Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2024 09:44:14 +0200 > Cc: phil...@posteo.net, 72...@debbugs.gnu.org > > Thanks, > > imho it'd be also useful to add there that Emacs will make the installed > packages available automatically at > startup. Now it reads that Emacs will add them to `load-path` but I wouldn't > infer from this that Emacs will also > make these packages available. And right after that we say that "... making > the above manual customizations > unnecessary for such packages" which specifically refers to loading, not only > adding to `load-path`. Just two > cents,
All of this is already described in the node "Package Installation", to which this node points. Cross-references in the manual are there for a reason: interested readers are expected to follow them and to read what the referenced nodes say. We don't have the same information in more than one place in the manual because that would make it a maintenance burden: all of those places have to be found and updated when something changes. Our conventions are to describe each feature in full in a single place, and then have cross-references to that one place in other related places. So I decided not to expand on this more in the sections which is only tangentially related to package installation. This text is there so as to avoid creating an impression that what this node describes must be done for packages installed via package.el. It doesn't (and should not) pretend to describe installation via package.el.
