Where is the state ? Why is el-get that stateful ? functional mode?

[MarcWeber]

When trying new packages I often have the problem that a package does not work yet. I'd like to not load it. Simply commenting the recipe in .emacs is not enough, neither is rm -fr it, I also have to delete .status.el?

What's happening? Why isn't commenting a recipe in ~/.emacs enough to ignore loading it? Why is having that much state useful at all? why not just manage packages to be loaded by ~/.emacs ? Maybe I just missed something important.

For instance VAM /Vim Plug work this way:

      Plug package

package gets loaded, is on disk

      " no Plug package

package is on disk, but doesn't get loaded.

[npostavs]

Maybe I just missed something important.

Nope, just nobody wrote that code yet.