Re: Async rebuild package-quickstart after packages update? was Re: 28.0.50; Proposal: slightly more efficient package-quickstart.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: "T.V Raman" <raman@google.com>,  Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
>   emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 07:18:00 +0200
> 
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> 
> >> I went with -batch -q because your earlier message pointed toward doing
> >> something that  was independent of the user's personal config?
> 
> Why do you even care for -Q option there? You would like to do it async,
> so just start the process with user settings and forgett about it and
> let it chew until it's done.

Starting "emacs -batch" with user settings could easily fail, since
many settings in the init files are for interactive sessions, and will
signal errors when done in batch mode.