> From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 11:36:40 -0400
> Cc: 78304@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2025, 7:29 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
>  > From: Spencer Baugh <sbaugh@janestreet.com>
>  > Cc: 78304@debbugs.gnu.org
>  > Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 14:10:24 -0400
>  >
>  > Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>  >
>  > > Why cannot you do whatever you need in the site-init file?
>  >
>  > By that I assume you mean site-start.el, since AFAIK site-init.el is not
>  > loaded at runtime, only at dump time.
>  >
>  > As (info "(elisp) Startup Summary") describes, site-start.el is loaded
>  > after package-activate-all is called and the initial frame is set up.
>  > It is therefore loaded too late to configure these things.
>
>  That's easy to overcome: set package-enable-at-startup to a nil value
>  in early-init.el, then call package-activate-all in site-start file.
>
>  Does this solve the problem?
>
> No, because as I said above, there's no way to combine this solution with -q.

I don't understand why.  The -q switch doesn't disable loading
site-start file.