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

[Arthur Miller]

Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com> writes:

> On 8/5/21 2:11 PM, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>>> Do we know what other "relevant variables" are here?> If we're
>>> lucky the vars defined in package.el are all we need. But of
>> course, the users may also be using a setup where the installed 
>> packages only work after running some of the `.emacs`.
>
> Why do we need to activate packages before regenerating package-quickstart?  
> Isn't it just a concatenation of all available autoload files?

Yes it is, thats what package-quickstart-refresh does, just concatenate
autoloads file for activated packages.