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Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> I think bug #18725 (Say "no" to "erase customizations?". .emacs gets
> written.)  is a candidate for a major problem.  Basically, in certain
> customize-... functions, .emacs gets saved despite the user explicitly
> saying "no".  This is really bad, and I think it should be fixed for
> emacs-24.  

I see it was already installed.
Why is it really bad?
It's not a new problem, is it?
It just saves the file the same as before, it doesn't change it, right?