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: monnier@iro.umontreal.ca,  raman@google.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 15:20:19 +0200
> 
> >> 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?

You mean, start a new interactive session, open an Emacs frame, run
all the customizations, including perhaps restoring the last session
via desktop, etc.?  Doesn't sound right to me.