Don't tell people to use Pkg to install Pkg #53197
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Occasionally one ends up in a situation where Pkg is not available
This results in the rather nonsensical error message:
How dare the REPL mock me like that?
We could display a number of useful and/or humours messages here, like checking if
@stdlib
is JULIA_LOAD_PATHor commentary about being up shit creek without a paddle, etc.
right now for initial PR I just said nothing.
(One way to replicate this error message is to set the environment variable
JULIA_LOAD_PATH="some nonsense value"
before starting julia. Another is to be building julia from source and have Pkg be in a broken state where it can't precompile. I am sure there is another where you prune stdlibs for your use-case)