From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jskud@Jskud.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: paths.el not reloaded; impacts integrity of any distribution Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:41:57 -0800 Message-ID: <200701260641.l0Q6fvAv009172@echo.jskud.com> References: <200701250402.l0P42BsA005400@echo.jskud.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169847316 27793 80.91.229.12 (26 Jan 2007 21:35:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:35:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 26 22:35:09 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HAYiy-0004ux-5G for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:35:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAYix-0007Rt-OA for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:35:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAKmm-0008BY-Nc for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HAKml-0008BE-OB for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:42:08 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HAKml-0008BB-L9 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:42:07 -0500 Original-Received: from jskud.com ([63.105.29.2] helo=echo.jskud.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HAKmh-0006oh-JZ; Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:42:04 -0500 Original-Received: from echo.jskud.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by echo.jskud.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l0Q6fwxR009176; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:41:58 -0800 Original-Received: (from Jskud@localhost) by echo.jskud.com (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id l0Q6fvAv009172; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:41:57 -0800 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 16:43:39 -0500) X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:35:05 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:15552 Archived-At: Thanks for the reply, and correction: that a stale sendmail-program path does not impact all distributions; I see it in some binary distributions (cf. fedora legacy update releases for redhat 9 and fedora core 1). To avoid stale path problems with future binary releases, wouldn't it make sense to reload paths.el on startup as part of the Emacs mainline? /Jskud