Juan José García-Ripoll <juanjose.garciarip...@gmail.com> writes: > Your below example shows using :config and an explicit setq statement to > change the value of that variable. I found that this approach *does not* > trigger loading gnus, but using the :custom field of use-package does. I > cannot really fathom why.
So you want the variable set, but without invoking Gnus? What's your purpose in doing so? According to documentation: >:config can be used to execute code after a package is loaded. So, the `:custom` option executes code before the package is loaded.
