@RainerTrummer hi, enabling add-ons on the command line is working in my tests.
The issue with reporting bugs here is I end up needing to ask follow up questions and try to find out what your doing on your system that’s different to mine, so please just report bugs in the tracker because it adds noise to these threads & risks developers missing reports before release.
Hi @ideasman42 thanks for checking, I have reported a bug here: #124250 - Enabling Add-ons from command line broken - blender - Blender Projects
System details are given in the report, let’s continue conversation over there.
You can find it here: 4.2 LTS - Blender Developer Documentation
In the end, since we implemented the simpler way to download the missing add-ons from within Blender (and the system local repository to make portable installations), I decided to leave the backwards compatibility bundle only on the wiki release notes.
As I understand that add-on bundle won’t be updated?
Don’t think so, as all addon creators are advised to move on to the Extensions platform.
So if you have a favorite addon that’s not there yet, send beer money to the one who’s developing it 
That’s sad. Blender on my PC don’t have and will never have access to the internet.
While bundle will not be updated, it is possible to make Blender to use extensions from a local repository: Deploying Blender in Production - Blender 4.2 Manual
You should be able to prepare such directory, and either use it for yourself, or use it in a more controlled environment for all Blender users in a studio with internet restrictions.
Would it be possible to get clarification on “Bundle other add-ons together”
https://docs.blender.org/manual/en/dev/advanced/extensions/addons.html#bundle-dependencies
When bundling add-ons as dependencies, there is no way to register these secondary add-ons in the Add-ons Preferences UI, correct?
If add-on A bundles, add-on B, and add-on C we will only see add-on A in the Add-ons Preferences UI
Quite sure it is only the “parent” add-on which will be showing up in the list. but maybe someone closer to the project can confirm this. That section is about avoiding creation of panels/operators with the same identifier.
P.S. I was thinking where is the good place for such sort of questions would be. In a way, it is not really announcement, and doesn’t really fall under “contributing to Blender” category. Perhaps #python room on the Blender chat is where there are plenty of developers who can more instantly share knowledge and such?
That’s correct.
I would say: https://www.blender.org/community/
If something comes out of it that may indicate the docs need to be improved, then the community can send a documentation pull request.
That said I feel that we shouldn’t have the same question in this thread, and on its own thread
