Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> I'd be awfully surprised if it only worked for me -- I'd think we
>> would have seen bug reports by now.
>
> My impressions is: some people may have tried using the registry, but
> most of them gave up, and nearly nobody is using it.
>
>> I still blame your usage of debbugs-gnu :)
>
> I don't.  AFAICT the issue happens with (featurep 'debbugs-gnu) ==> nil
> all the time.

No, I didn't really mean that...

Would you try the attached patch? It leaves gnus-registry-db at nil to
start with, and also removes the root of the double-loading (which was a
problem only because it can potentially be very slow).

Thanks,
Eric