HowTo: Avoid packages like TPU

[raman]

With loaddefs.el in Emacs 22, rarely used packages 
like tpu end up showing up in the default obarray operated upon
by mapatoms. Is there a way to avoid this?

I use reflection via mapatoms to find interactive commands that
need to be speech-enabled in Emacspeak, and one unfortunate
consequence is the following:

0) mapatoms finds commands like "set cursor free" from tpu-extras
1) In using reflection, it ends up loading tpu-extras.el (even
   though I have no intention of using tpu)
2) Worse, tpu-extras is evil -- it redefines things like newline
3) And even worse, tpu-current-line (used by the redefined newline)
       raises errors at times when called from display-warning.

In the minimum it would be nice if optional packages that
redefine core functionality such as command `newline' didn't get
accidentally pulled in.


In GNU Emacs 22.1.50.11 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20)
 of 2007-08-04 on labrador
configured using `configure  '--prefix=/usr/local' '--with-toolkit=gtk''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: nil

Major mode: Shell

Minor modes in effect:
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  erc-ring-mode: t
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  erc-button-mode: t
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  dired-omit-mode: t
  dynamic-completion-mode: t
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  erc-noncommands-mode: t
  erc-readonly-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  auto-insert-mode: t
  encoded-kbd-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
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  utf-translate-cjk-mode: t
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