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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>
Cc: 15539@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15539: comment
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2016 09:28:50 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mvhfln4d.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9c71f3ab-6322-c7fd-b98d-28f27d6c51f1@campus.tu-berlin.de> (message from Max on Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:32:01 +0100)

> From: Max <maxim.suraev@campus.tu-berlin.de>
> Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 23:32:01 +0100
> 
> As an Emacs user I would like to kindly request you to reconsider this bug.
> 
> I think that the added complexity (look at the patch size, and even that is more
> comments than code) is more than justified by the convenience it adds.

The "complexity" mentioned in the discussion of this bug did not
allude to the size or complexity of the patch, it alluded to the
complexity this would add to Emacs and its development/maintenance:
where previously user-emacs-directory and the directory pointed to by
HOME in the environment were one and the same, now they will not be.

I think if we want to revisit this issue, we should come up with the
use cases where this feature would be useful, and see if they are
important enough to justify the price.  AFAIR, no use cases were
provided with the original request.

Thanks.





  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-04  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-06 17:08 bug#15539: 24.3; setting user-emacs-directory at command line invocation Mike Carifio
2015-03-13 15:01 ` bug#15539: Setting " François Févotte
2015-03-16  0:36   ` Glenn Morris
2015-03-16  7:28     ` François Févotte
2015-03-17 10:08     ` François Févotte
2016-02-15 10:31 ` bug#15539: [PATCH] Setting user-emacs-directory Alexis
2016-02-15 14:15   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-24  4:03     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-02-24 17:15       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-02-25  5:48         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2016-11-03 22:32 ` bug#15539: comment Max
2016-11-04  7:28   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-11-04 12:42     ` Evgeny Roubinchtein
2016-11-04 12:55       ` Noam Postavsky
2016-11-04 13:59       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-14 18:43         ` Glenn Morris

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