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+;;; early-init.el -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
+
+;; Later versions of Emacs 27 (on master) introduce a new behavior:
+;;
+;; Package initialize occurs automatically, before `user-init-file' is loaded,
+;; but after `early-init-file'. Doom handles package initialization, so we must
+;; prevent Emacs from doing it early!
+(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
+