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    BTW. How about changing startup.el such that custom-file is loaded
    (after .emacs) if it has been set and if the file hasn't been loaded yet
    (such that users only need to put (setq custom-file "~/.custom") in
    their .emacs file) ?

I see nothing wrong with that.  Want to do it?