Forge not loading automatically when deferring use-package

[david-alvarez-rosa]

Forge is not loading automatically when using (setq use-package-always-defer t) with a minimal setup

(use-package magit :bind ("C-c g" . 'magit-status))
(use-package forge :after magit)

Can be fixed by explicitly requiring forge from magit

(use-package magit
  :bind ("C-c g" . 'magit-status)
  :config (require 'forge))
(use-package forge :after magit)

but doesn't feel like an elegant solution. Am I missing something?

[tarsius]

I would assume that

(use-package magit :bind ("C-c g" . 'magit-status))
(use-package forge :after magit :defer nil)

works. If it does and you feel that you shouldn't have to add that, then take it up with the maintainers of use-package. Looking at the docstrings of use-package and use-package-always-defer, I feel this works as advertised. You could argue that by "always defer" you obviously meant "... except when already 'deferred until after'", because that's "another form of 'deferred'". Then again, the option is named use-package-always-defer.

[david-alvarez-rosa]

Thank you, @tarsius. That works perfectly. I really appreciate your contributions to Emacs.