Nope, no harm has been done. Still curious about it though. IMO, there's no reference to 'ox.el' in the babel source files so I don't understand how is this possible.
2014-11-23 13:36 GMT-03:00 Nicolas Goaziou <m...@nicolasgoaziou.fr>: > Hello, > > Vicente Vera <vicente...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Hello. Just noticed that after evaluating a code block with C-c C-c >> (org-babel-execute-src-block?) all export backends stored in >> 'org-export-backends' are loaded---or 'required'---automatically. Once >> I commented out my 'org-export-backends' setup those backends weren't >> loaded, but the default ones did (ascii html icalendar latex). >> >> Is this the intended behavior? > > `org-babel-execute-src-block' probably requires "ox.el" or some > back-end, triggering. Back-ends are loaded as soon as "ox.el" is > required. > >> Tried to grep my way through Org's source files looking for a clue >> with no success. >> >> Also, is there a way to prevent this from happening? It doesn't seem >> extremely necessary to me. > > It doesn't really hurt either. > > > Regards, > > -- > Nicolas Goaziou