@ido: it would be good to see a simple example of what you are trying to achieve. most of the time non obvious things are non obvious for a reason and there is just a different way / angle to solve the problem.

explicit deps is something we were thinking about: https://github.com/tolitius/mount/issues/48 but my feeling is that a permutation of states: https://github.com/tolitius/mount#composing-states, or a lazy loaded app (in cljc mode): https://github.com/tolitius/mount/blob/master/doc/clojurescript.md#clojure-and-clojurescript-mode, or another sequence of how the app is started, will solve it.

I could be wrong of course, but that would be only clear when you provide a simple example of what it is you are trying to do, and why

@arnout: your snippet above guessing how my code is right on the spot.

@ido so you could potentially do something like:

(ns common.kafka ...)
(defstate consumer :start (start-with-topic (topic-from (mount/args))))

(ns common.db ...)
(defstate db :start (connect-db (db-url-from (mount/args))))

(ns service1 (:require [common.kafka :refer (consumer)] [common.db :refer (db)]))
(defn do-something [] (query db) (process consumer))

(binding [common.config/*config* (service1-config)]
   (mount/start))