Emacs keeps a bunch of scripts to run at startup, in the directory </etc/emacs/site-start.d>.
These scripts were making the startup of my emacs painfully slow, so I moved most of them to a directory </etc/emacs/site-dontstart.d>.
All was well until the other day, when Debian (stable) released a new and more secure xemacs21 package. As part of this package's installation process, a program called emacs-install gets run. After spending (I think correctly) a huge amount of time compiling bits of Lisp, emacs-install died, complaining that it wasn't finding the startup scripts where it expected, leaving me unable to complete the installation. Is there some "official" method of disabling the startup scripts that doesn't cause this problem, please?
(I'd also quite like to know the answer to the same question, with respect to the system startup symlinks in </etc/rc?.d>.)