Comment 5 for bug 972721

Thinking about it, there can be a use case when you want to reset your configuration but not starting unity at all (remember that unity --reset resets the configuration AND launch unity on an opened session).

Thomas, what's your use case exactly? Do you want to reset the configuration for a particular user (who is not logged in) and not start unity afterwards? We can imagine doing an unity --reset --nostart for it for instance (or any other meaningful option).