bug#14502: 24.3; dired-load-hook should not be customizable

[Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org> writes:
>
>> dired-load-hook is customizable, but dired-x's manual correctly says
>> that you should add code to your init file to load dired-x in
>> dired-load-hook. I tried customizing the hook instead, and that doesn't
>> work. As with find-file-hook (see bug #13870), I suggest that
>> dired-load-hook either be made non-customizable, or a warning added to
>> the docstring.
>
> (I'm going through old bug reports that have unfortunately gotten no
> responses yet.)
>
> I'm not sure I understand the problem, and #13870 does not talk about
> `find-file-hook'.
>
> Does it matter whether you use `add-hook' or Customize for this
> particular hook?  Most hooks are customisable, surely, including
> `find-file-hook'.

We now have that:

(make-obsolete-variable 'dired-load-hook
                        "use `with-eval-after-load' instead." "28.1")

So I think this problem has resolved itself, and I'm closing this bug.