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

[Arthur Miller]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> 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.

Aha. Ok. Fair enough. But why runing in batch mode at all. 

Why not start normal emacs server process on another socket and
ask it to refresh quickstart file form another client? Two processes,
but no tinkering needed? Would that work?