Subject: bug#10125: RFE: require and load-path-shadowing

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:39:54 +0200

> From: Achim Gratz <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:01:36 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> >> > IOW, do you expect the byte-compile instances to be different in any
> >> > way from a fresh Emacs session invoked from the shell as "emacs -Q"?
> >> 
> >> Yes, because the current Emacs may be a different executable than the
> >> one the shell would run in response to "emacs -Q".
> >
> > And if we make sure the same executable is run (easy on Windows)?  Are
> > there any other differences?
> 
> There may have been changes in the way Emacs starts up in the meantime,
> since we're considering the case where new packages get installed.
> Starting Emacs with "-Q" shouldn't be affected by this, but there's no
> guarantee (yes, this is a fringe case).

Sorry, I don't follow: new packages can only affect "emacs -Q" if you
re-dump Emacs in between.  Am I missing something?