Bug#623633: sbcl not loading asdf on startup

[Christoph Egger]

Hi all!

You should have seen the message below when updating to sbcl 1.0.47.0-2

sbcl (1:1.0.47.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

  Starting with sbcl 1.0.47.0-2 common-lisp-controller has been dropped
  from the sbcl packages. One of the results of this is asdf no longer
  being available on startup. To get the old behaviour put `(require
  'asdf)` in /etc/sbclrc

 -- Christoph Egger <christoph at debian.org>  Tue, 10 May 2011 22:50:18 +0200

This is the exactly same behaviour you will get when installing sbcl
from upstream or in gentoo or arch linux. Of course the require could be
installed by sbcl into the global sbclrc or something like that *if*
there's a compelling reason to diverge here from upstream again.

Regards

    Christoph

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