Explictly explain that package-initialize loads the packages

[gnu-emacs] / lisp / emacs-lisp / package.el

diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
index d5d35d78b83be296f9629ddabce73b089fc2bec8..c05bb53b0b31cf0ed0087639e3a8a264c5320b83 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
@@ -1430,7 +1430,10 @@ If `user-init-file' does not mention `(package-initialize)', add
 it to the file.
 If called as part of loading `user-init-file', set
 `package-enable-at-startup' to nil, to prevent accidentally
-loading packages twice."
+loading packages twice.
+It is not necessary to adjust `load-path' or `require' the
+individual packages after calling `package-initialize' -- this is
+taken care of by `package-initialize'."
   (interactive)
   (setq package-alist nil)
   (if (equal user-init-file load-file-name)