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Subject: Re: Any chance of a `flatten-list' to merge 4 current versions?
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    i.e. four different packages, all quite widely used, have their own
    version.  Would it be worth providing just one common version called
    `flatten-list'?

Just 4 is not enough, but if there are a few more, then we would
want to put it in Emacs.

The way it's done now, it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.