Variable: package-quickstart

package-quickstart is a customizable variable defined in package.el.gz.

Value

nil

Documentation

Precompute activation actions to speed up startup.

This requires the use of package-quickstart-refresh every time the activations need to be changed, such as when package-load-list is modified.

This variable was added, or its default value changed, in Emacs 27.1.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 27.1.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el.gz
;;;; Quickstart: precompute activation actions for faster start up.

;; Activating packages via `package-initialize' is costly: for N installed
;; packages, it needs to read all N <pkg>-pkg.el files first to decide
;; which packages to activate, and then again N <pkg>-autoloads.el files.
;; To speed this up, we precompute a mega-autoloads file which is the
;; concatenation of all those <pkg>-autoloads.el, so we can activate
;; all packages by loading this one file (and hence without initializing
;; package.el).

;; Other than speeding things up, this also offers a bootstrap feature:
;; it lets us activate packages according to `package-load-list' and
;; `package-user-dir' even before those vars are set.

(defcustom package-quickstart nil
  "Precompute activation actions to speed up startup.
This requires the use of `package-quickstart-refresh' every time the
activations need to be changed, such as when `package-load-list' is modified."
  :type 'boolean
  :version "27.1")