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    I think it'd be useful to add a warning/prompt when saving, along the lines
    of "set outside customize: saving may not work".  With such a warning, we
    could drop the "changed outside customize" state (well: keep it internally,
    of course, but not show it to the user) and still know that users won't be
    surprised when things don't work.

In effect, this would be equivalent to maintaining the two states
but treating them more or less the same aside from their names.