Package: emacsen-common Version: 1.4.17 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch Hi!
One of the problems I have faced with the debian startup procedure is that, while the run-parts like technique offers a lot of flexibility, loading a lot of very small source files makes the startup quite slow. Here's a implementation of debian-startup.el which handles this by dynamically creating and byte-compiling a "cache" of all the startup bits on a per-user basis, taking care of all the dependencies which could possibly invalidate the cache. The package also features a few other enhancements (might be controversial, I leave it to you to figure out if it is worthwhile including these changes :) ). Please see the commentary section for a description of all the changes.
debian-startup.el
Description: Caching version of debian-startup
Regards,
Ramkumar.
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