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> From: Mario Lang <mlang@blind.guru>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>,  "Mingde (Matthew)
>  Zeng" <matthewzmd@gmail.com>,  smartlitchi@gmail.com,  Elias Mårtenson
>  <lokedhs@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2020 12:03:58 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Which is completely consistent with making this feature opt-in, don't
> > you agree?  And NEWS will tell so.
> 
> If people would read NEWS, this problem wouldn't have come up here.
> Prior to this discussion, ~/.config/emacs/ was pretty nicely
> described in NEWS already.

If the feature is changed to be backward-compatible, the NEWS entry
becomes much less important.