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> 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.


        Stefan