are there conflicts between use-package and a package's autoloads?

Question

Do I have to worry about a package's built-in autoloads somehow conflicting with those implicitly defined by use-package? For example if I do :commands some-cmd but the package already had an autoload created for some-cmd, will there be any problems?

Answer 1

I don't think you should run into any problems. I use :bind for commands that are already autoloaded (note that :bind implicitly generates autoloads, in the same way as :commands), and haven't run into any problems. And if you're using :commands and not :bind and you run into problems because of this, you should be able to solve them just by dropping the :commands directive.

User npostavs linked to this github issue in a comment, which suggests that there was previously a problem with :commands clobbering pre-existing autoloads, but this has since been fixed. Reading through it might be helpful if problems do arise.