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From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Various fixes for early init file changes
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 18:14:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e1d7b804-ab0c-00e7-442b-beeed73d39f0@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADB4rJHw8XmjFGPmfkG3mHJjwPZttm3AyshhdsbJqo17UO2i1Q@mail.gmail.com>

On 2018-03-19 16:16, Radon Rosborough wrote:
>> Disabling should be easy for anyone, including novices.
> 
> I agree with your philosophy but in this case allowing such disabling
> would actually do more harm than good. It's not a matter of a choice
> being made for the user, it's just a case of their init-file is wrong
> and needs to be fixed (otherwise it will load slower). Let's be
> pragmatic here and recognize that since basically every user of Emacs
> is going to see this message, if there is any way for the user to mess
> up, it will happen hundreds of times.
> 
> Stefan's suggestion is of course the right answer, I think: the user
> is given an option to fix the warning, not disable it.

There is another change we could consider: automatically removing the automatically-added call to package-initialize.




  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-19 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-03  5:31 [PATCH] Various fixes for early init file changes Radon Rosborough
2018-03-03 17:26 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-03 18:02   ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-09  1:30 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-09  6:07   ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-09 13:16     ` Noam Postavsky
2018-03-19  8:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-03-19 10:06     ` Robert Pluim
2018-03-19 16:20       ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-19 16:29         ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-19 16:34           ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-19 16:38             ` Stefan Monnier
2018-03-19 20:14               ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-19 17:02         ` Drew Adams
2018-03-19 20:16           ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-19 22:14             ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2018-03-20  5:44               ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-20  5:53                 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-03-20 16:08                 ` Andy Moreton
2018-03-20 16:36                   ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-20 16:42                     ` Robert Pluim
2018-03-20 19:44                       ` Radon Rosborough
2018-03-21  9:00                         ` Robert Pluim

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