On Sunday, January 6, 2013, Eric Schulte wrote:

> Tom Davey <tdavey@gmail.com <javascript:;>> writes:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > This is a very interesting discussion. I too have run into this issue,
> > and addressed it in a different way.
> >
> > My init.el contains only a defun and an add-hook. The defun is simple.
> > It adds a few miscellaneous directories to load-path and then makes
> > the call to Eric's starter kit via org-babel-load-file().
> >
> > The trick is this: I add the defun to the hook "after-init-hook". This
> > ensures that my personal initialization, including the Starter Kit
> > .org files, doesn't begin to execute until all the ELPA packages are
> > initialized. That way my own initialization can depend on a fully
> > stabilized Emacs.
> >
> > (add-hook 'after-init-hook 'my-after-init-hook-functions)
> >
> > I found this useful because my personal initialization makes little
> > tweaks to my ELPA packages. It seems to give me the control over the
> > order of initialization that I need.
> >
> > Regards to all,
> > Tom Davey
> >
> > --
> > Tom Davey
> > tom@tomdavey.com <javascript:;>
> > New York NY USA
> >
>
> Thanks for sharing, this does seem like the best way to ensure that all
> of the packages are loaded.
>
> I've just updated the starter kit to both require org and to use the
> `after-init-hook'.
>
> Hopefully this should fix as many problems as possible now, please let
> me know if any issues persist.
>

Thanks Eric, will give it a shot.