Dear Robert,
I see that your latest edit of the ASDF manual failed to include @node surgery (why can't @node's be automatically updated by emacs or some other tool???)
I also see that regarding resetting the configuration, things weren't updated.
The situation is that there is now a function uiop:clear-configuration, into which the ASDF source-registry and output-translations layers hook. This function is itself hooked into the image-dump-hook, so that, if you use uiop:dump-image, you don't need clear the configuration anymore. That was one of the reasons I pulled in these hooks, actually (originally implemented at ITA in quux).
If you insist on calling sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die and similar, of course you lose and you need to call the cleanup hooks yourself.
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