Issues with use-package and straight.el #136
Description
Hi,
I'm trying to use dashboard.el together with straight.el and use-package, but I can't seem to get it to work.
Here's my super basic setup:
(use-package dashboard
:straight t
:config
(setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/img/ness_transp.png"
dashboard-items '((recents . 5)
(projects . 5)
(agenda . 5)))
(dashboard-setup-startup-hook))Evaluating this causes the following problems:
- I receive the following warning:
Error (use-package): dashboard/:catch: Symbol’s value as variable is void: package-activated-list
I think this makes sense, because I am using straight.el, which means I'm basically avoiding the use of package.el, which I'm never even properly initializing as a result. However, I'm not sure where this is coming from.
- The debugger shows the following output:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable package-activated-list)
byte-code("\301\302\010G\303 #\207" [package-activated-list format "%d packages loaded in %s" emacs-init-time] 4)
(defvar dashboard-init-info (byte-code "\301\302\010G\303 #\207" [package-activated-list format "%d packages loaded in %s" emacs-init-time] 4) ("/home/romatthe/.emacs.d/straight/build/dashboard/dashboard-widgets.elc" . 2558))
require(dashboard-widgets)
eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/romatthe/.emacs.d/straight/build/dashboard/dashboard.el" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 751
load-with-code-conversion("/home/romatthe/.emacs.d/straight/build/dashboard/dashboard.el" "/home/romatthe/.emacs.d/straight/build/dashboard/dashboard.el" t t)
require(dashboard nil t)
(not (require (quote dashboard) nil t))
(if (not (require (quote dashboard) nil t)) (display-warning (quote use-package) (format "Cannot load %s" (quote dashboard)) :error) (condition-case err (progn (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/img/ness_transp.png" dashboard-items (quote ((recents . 5) (projects . 5) (agenda . 5)))) (dashboard-setup-startup-hook) t) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :config err))))
(condition-case err (if (not (require (quote dashboard) nil t)) (display-warning (quote use-package) (format "Cannot load %s" (quote dashboard)) :error) (condition-case err (progn (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/img/ness_transp.png" dashboard-items (quote ((recents . 5) (projects . 5) (agenda . 5)))) (dashboard-setup-startup-hook) t) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :config err)))) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :catch err)))
(progn (straight-use-package (quote dashboard)) (defvar use-package--warning30 (function (lambda (keyword err) (let ((msg (format "%s/%s: %s" ... keyword ...))) (display-warning (quote use-package) msg :error))))) (condition-case err (if (not (require (quote dashboard) nil t)) (display-warning (quote use-package) (format "Cannot load %s" (quote dashboard)) :error) (condition-case err (progn (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/img/ness_transp.png" dashboard-items (quote (... ... ...))) (dashboard-setup-startup-hook) t) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :config err)))) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :catch err))))
(progn (progn (straight-use-package (quote dashboard)) (defvar use-package--warning30 (function (lambda (keyword err) (let ((msg ...)) (display-warning (quote use-package) msg :error))))) (condition-case err (if (not (require (quote dashboard) nil t)) (display-warning (quote use-package) (format "Cannot load %s" (quote dashboard)) :error) (condition-case err (progn (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/img/ness_transp.png" dashboard-items (quote ...)) (dashboard-setup-startup-hook) t) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :config err)))) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :catch err)))))
eval((progn (progn (straight-use-package (quote dashboard)) (defvar use-package--warning30 (function (lambda (keyword err) (let (...) (display-warning ... msg :error))))) (condition-case err (if (not (require (quote dashboard) nil t)) (display-warning (quote use-package) (format "Cannot load %s" (quote dashboard)) :error) (condition-case err (progn (setq dashboard-startup-banner "~/.emacs.d/img/ness_transp.png" dashboard-items ...) (dashboard-setup-startup-hook) t) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :config err)))) ((debug error) (funcall use-package--warning30 :catch err))))) t)
elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
eval-last-sexp(nil)
funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp
I'm unfortunately not that great at debugging elisp, so this is sort of where I had to stop investigating. I scanned through the source code of the package, but I didn't immediately see anything suspicious.
The only thing I could think of is a problem with this package's autoloads? As stated in the docs for straight.el:
Note that installing a package will activate all of its autoloads, but it will not actually require the features provided by the package.
That's the last thing I could think of.
I'm not sure if this is an issue related to dashboard.el, or with straight.el or use-package. However, this is the first package I've had any issues with.
Emacs version:
$ emacs --version
GNU Emacs 26.2
Dashboard version: git 8494d4f
Thanks for maintaining this great package!