Change minimal-emacs-package-initialize-and-refresh to nil

Author: jamescherti

early-init.el

@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ lookups during Emacs startup.")
 This reduces visual clutter and slightly enhances startup performance. The
 tradeoff is that the mode line is hidden during the startup phase.")
 
-(defvar minimal-emacs-package-initialize-and-refresh t
+(defvar minimal-emacs-package-initialize-and-refresh nil
   "Whether to automatically initialize and refresh packages.
 When set to non-nil, Emacs will automatically call `package-initialize' and
 `package-refresh-contents' to set up and update the package system.")

init.el

@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@
 (setq dired-omit-files (concat "\\`[.]\\'"))
 
 ;; Group directories first
-(when minimal-emacs-dired-group-directories-first
+(when (bound-and-true-p minimal-emacs-dired-group-directories-first)
   (with-eval-after-load 'dired
     (let ((args "--group-directories-first -ahlv"))
       (when (or (eq system-type 'darwin)