Re: dir-locals.el take precedence over user's mode-hook changes

[Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

  > It seems that the dir-local.el settings are applied after the major mode
  > hook has been run.
  > That makes it pretty impossible for the user to override them, which is
  > problematic (I noticed it because I use a tab-width of 4 in my (Emacs)
  > ChangeLog files and now tab-width is back to 8).
  > 
  > I guess it's the same problem as the one of setting file-local
  > variables, but for directories it's even worse.  We should provide some
  > way to override those settings.

If the user really really wants to override the settings doesn't
rm .dir-locals.el 
or
changing the contents of .dir-locals.el 
work well enough?