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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Small custom fixes
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Hrvoje Niksic writes:
 > Off-that-topic, I'd like to raise a question if the packages that
 > install themselves when loaded are a good thing to gave?  For example,
 > when browsing through custom menus, packages are loaded without my
 > consent.  It can turn on id-select, or a load of other stuff I don't
 > want.

Another reason to put the custom delcaration in a separate
file.  Good or bad, people expect packages to be turned on when you
load certain files.  Filladapt used to be this way.  I think I've
removed this behavior from all my packages except balloon-help.
Balloon-help is so benign that I'm having trouble with the idea of
loading it but not turning it on.

We could put our mighty foot down and say

  Thou shalt not enable features in the top level eval forms of thy
  packages.

and then remove all such occurrences in the packages that we
ship.  I would favor this.

