Warning: Extended allocation already in use. etex.sty code will not be used

Question

These are the imports for my latex project. I am wondering how to fix the compile time following the warning, I don't know which package is causing it. Apparently, this question has been asked before but I am not using autonum package so I am not sure.

Package etex Warning: Extended allocation already in use.
etex.sty code will not be used.
To force etex package to load, add \RequirePackage{etex}
at the start of the document.

Latex:

   \documentclass{article}
    \usepackage[letterpaper, portrait, margin=1in]{geometry}
    \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
    \usepackage{setspace}
    \usepackage{amsthm}
    \usepackage{amsmath}
    \usepackage{amssymb}
    \usepackage{mathtools}
    \usepackage{float}
    \usepackage{xcolor}
    \usepackage{mathrsfs}
    \usepackage{soul}
    \usepackage{spverbatim}
    \usepackage[pdfencoding=auto]{hyperref}
    \usepackage{bookmark}% faster updated bookmarks
    \usepackage{csquotes}
    \usepackage{algorithm}
    \usepackage{algpseudocode}
    \usepackage{enumerate}
    \usepackage{multicol}
    \usepackage{fancyvrb}
    \usepackage[super]{nth}
    \usepackage{listings}
    \usepackage{enumitem}
    \usepackage{linegoal}
    \usepackage{calc}
    \usepackage{tocloft}
    \usepackage{graphicx}
    \usepackage{tikz-qtree}
    \usepackage{forest}
    \usepackage{titling}
    \usepackage{subcaption}
    \usepackage{abstract}
    \usepackage{booktabs} % for the second rendering
    \usepackage[nameinlink]{cleveref} % load this package *last*
    \title{Warning issue}
\lstset{
basicstyle=\small\ttfamily,
columns=flexible,
breaklines=true
}
\date{February 2023}

\begin{document}

\maketitle

\section{Introduction}

\begin{lstlisting}
Package etex Warning: Extended allocation already in use. etex.sty code will not be used. To force etex package to load, add \RequirePackage{etex} at the start of the document.
\end{lstlisting}

\end{document}

Overleaf project

FYI you should load hyperref after booktabs and before cleveref too, you have correctly identified that cleveref should be loaded last (% load this package *last*), hyperref is the same except for glossaries, cleveref etc it is described in the hyperref documentation (section 3 and 11) — JamesT, Feb 21 '23 at 10:06

David Carlisle · Answer 1 · 2023-02-21T09:25:34.713

Do you really use all those packages? It is bad practice to load packages you do not use.

The problem here is linegoal which is unmaintained and has not been updated since 2010. It includes the obsolete etex package which does nothing other than warn it should not be used.

If you really need linegoal just ignore the warning. A fix would be to change linegoal not to load etex but loading it with a warning that it does nothing is more or less the same thing.

Do not avoid the warning by forcing etex to be loaded earlier, that might be needed for some specific legacy documents but it will break a lot of current code.

Warning: Extended allocation already in use. etex.sty code will not be used

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