On 12/10/20 at 11:47am, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > not just those present in "emacs -Q"?  To do what he wanted, you'd
> > need to load all of the Emacs packages as well, one by one, taking
> > care to unload them or restart the session, to account for basic
> > incompatibilities between some of them.  I don't think this is a
> > practical solution.
> 
> IIRC cus-dep.el does just that (and doesn't even bother to unload them
> or use separate sessions), so maybe it's not that bad.

Last time I tried that, I ended up launching M-x dunnet as side effect
which kept my batch script from quitting, so I'd argue that it's not
good enough for programmatic use. But then, maybe cus-dep.el has some
secrets on how to avoid that interaction...