RE: need a way to override defface?

["Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>]

> From: Drew Adams Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 8:00 PM
> > > `setq' will override a value already given to a variable by
> > > `defvar' or `defcustom', but is there a way to override a face already
> > > defined by `defface'?  Interactively, you can use `C-M-x' on another
> > > `defface' to override the previous definition, but how can you do that
> > > programmatically (without resorting to `eval-defun')?
> > >
> > > If there is no good way to do this, how about adding one?
> >
> > What about the set-face-* functions?
>
> Sure. What I meant, however, was something analogous to what
> `setq' does for `defvar' and `defcustom'. Something, for instance, that
> a user can put in .emacs to override a predefined `defface'.
>
> Yes, I realize that users can use Customize, but I'm thinking of something
> less interactive.
>
> As another example, I just sent a message to the list about a buff-menu.el
> patch. In order for others to try it out, I need to tell people to
> explicitly use `C-M-x' on a particular `defface' sexp. This is because
> buff-menu.el is preloaded, it calls `defface', and the patch gives a
> different definition of one of the faces. It would be simpler to
> give people a snippet of code to load (not eval with `C-M-x'), to override
> the predefined `defface'.

Anyone else have an idea about this?