Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes: > Eric Schulte writes: >> The starter kit does not "run through the Org files each time", rather >> it tangles the .org files to .el files, and then on all subsequent loads >> it loads directly from the .el files (unless the .org file is newer). > > So why does it need to load Org before activating the packages then? If > that could be avoided, there would be less problems and you wouldn't > need to hardcode loading it in init.el… >
Because the above sequence of loading .el files and possibly falling back to .org files is all performed by the `org-babel-load-file' function, which is not defined until org has been required. -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
