Re: Loading a package applies automatically to future sessions?

[Radon Rosborough]

> They are always "activated", but the downloadable packages are not.
> Since the status of activation can change, let's handle this in the
> way users expect, for things that can be enabled and disabled.

I think things already work the way users expect. Let's look at
Python. When you install a package using 'pip', the package files are
placed on Python's search path. Thereafter, 'import <package>' works
without any further "activation" step. The package is automatically
made available in future sessions, although it is not loaded until
requested.

The analogous behavior is to have installed packages' autoloads be
made available automatically in future sessions of Emacs, although the
packages are not loaded until requested.

-- Radon