Re: minor modes

[Richard Stallman]

    > However, autoloaded minor modes are not usually included in the
    > list; update-file-autoloads does not put anything into loaddefs.el
    > that would put the function name onto minor-mode-list.

    Is there a good reason to use loaddefs rather than cus-load, which I
    think has to be updated for my purposes anyhow?

cus-load is only loaded when you run Custom.  minor-mode-list should
always be defined.