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.
next prev parent 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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