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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: 14447@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14447: tramp-gvfs.el and xesam.el sometime fail to load
Date: Thu, 23 May 2013 09:35:47 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvbo81izx0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761yacbk7.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Thu, 23 May 2013 11:03:52 +0200")

>> It ought to always be possible to load lisp libraries.
> I've wrapped the call of `dbus-get-unique-name' by
> `ignore-errors'. tramp-gvfs.el returns now the user error "Package
> `tramp-gvfs' not supported", which is intended.

Not good enough: as Glenn wrote "It ought to always be possible to load
lisp libraries".  They may be loaded for all kinds of reasons that have
nothing to do with using that library.

> xesam.el is obsolete (the XESAM interface is not used anymore by search
> engines). Shouldn't we move xesam.el to "obsolete/"?

Feel free to do it (but even in obsolete/, it should be always possible
to load this library).


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-23 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-23  7:16 bug#14447: tramp-gvfs.el and xesam.el sometime fail to load Glenn Morris
2013-05-23  9:03 ` Michael Albinus
2013-05-23 13:35   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2013-05-23 14:00     ` Michael Albinus
2013-05-23 16:43       ` Stefan Monnier
2013-05-24 10:06         ` Michael Albinus

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