bug#20355: 25.0.50; Package installation fails without a fully loaded init file

[Stefan Monnier]

> I recently accidentally uninstalled a package required by my init.el.
> The result was that starting Emacs failed. I then could not install the
> package again, though, as package-install failed with an error "the init
> file was not fully loaded".  I suspect the latter is from the attempt to
> set `package-selected-packages'.  The same error happened when I started
> Emacs with -q.

Hmm... could you give a slightly more detailed recipe.  I think
package.el does not degrade gracefully enough in such "inconsistent"
states, indeed.


        Stefan