diff --git a/compose-publish.el b/compose-publish.el
index c192f1cc31715831d5bf7a998e1ddc934a74925b..b8fba36203eded85378a4086e6e66f46c9f03c83 100644
--- a/compose-publish.el
+++ b/compose-publish.el
@@ -75,6 +75,18 @@
                  ("\\subsection{%s}" . "\\subsection*{%s}")
                  ("\\subsubsection{%s}" . "\\subsubsection*{%s}"))))
 
+(defun remove-from-org-latex-default-packages-alist (package)
+  "Removes `package' from the list of packages that are included
+by default when exporting from Org to LaTeX, i.e. from
+`org-latex-default-packages-alist'. This is useful for controlling the order in
+which some of the packages are loaded in order to prevent conflicts or other
+undesirable behavior."
+  (let ((output '()))
+    (dolist (pkg org-latex-default-packages-alist)
+      (unless (string= package (nth 1 pkg))
+          (add-to-list 'output pkg t)))
+    (setq org-latex-default-packages-alist output)))
+
 ;; Load languages for code block evaluation.
 (org-babel-do-load-languages
  'org-babel-load-languages
diff --git a/latex-publish.el b/latex-publish.el
index 4d0fb439685543130b126ef1b33712057f1d5317..ba1a13ebc09cfcacc5111dc0016c76c67edc1d72 100644
--- a/latex-publish.el
+++ b/latex-publish.el
@@ -6,6 +6,18 @@
 ;; Preserve user-defined labels during the export to PDF via LaTeX.
 (setq org-latex-prefer-user-labels t)
 
+(defun remove-from-org-latex-default-packages-alist (package)
+  "Removes `package' from the list of packages that are included
+by default when exporting from Org to LaTeX, i.e. from
+`org-latex-default-packages-alist'. This is useful for controlling the order in
+which some of the packages are loaded in order to prevent conflicts or other
+undesirable behavior."
+  (let ((output '()))
+    (dolist (pkg org-latex-default-packages-alist)
+      (unless (string= package (nth 1 pkg))
+          (add-to-list 'output pkg t)))
+    (setq org-latex-default-packages-alist output)))
+
 ;; Custom publishing function for LaTeX files. This is useful when we need to
 ;; publish a manually written LaTeX file to PDF (e. g. a poster).
 (defun latex-publish-to-pdf (plist filename pub-dir)