From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 37819@debbugs.gnu.org, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Subject: bug#37819: [PATCH] Make 'load-dangerous-libraries' obsolete
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 10:33:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y2xhgmmz.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8336fp8cy3.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Oct 2019 09:30:12 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> I suspect that 'load-dangerous-libraries' is largely irrelevant
>> nowadays. Is this correct? If yes, here is a patch which would
>> ignore it and declare it obsolete.
>
> What is the purpose of declaring this obsolete? I'd argue we should
> keep this "forever", since it can never do any harm, and sometimes
> might do an important job.
The patch just makes Emacs refuse to load .elc files compiled by XEmacs
permanently, so it looks like the right thing to me. But perhaps for
Emacs 28.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-19 8:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-19 0:09 bug#37819: [PATCH] Make 'load-dangerous-libraries' obsolete Stefan Kangas
2019-10-19 6:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-19 8:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2019-10-19 11:55 ` Stefan Kangas
[not found] ` <87o8v21twh.fsf@marxist.se>
2020-01-22 13:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-01-23 17:12 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-02-19 13:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-03-01 0:20 ` Stefan Kangas
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