Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

I disagreethat we were not a "resounding" success; 

1. We were successful as you pointed out.
2. We were still making noise -- so that meets the "resounding" bar.
>> Because magit is hooked into so many places, every part of Emacs was
>> giving some error. For example, pressing RET on an info node was also
>> not working.
>>
>> An external package can cause so much damage. Can this be prevented?
>
> :-)
>
> Emacs tries to make a lot of things possible.  It also tries to prevent
> bad things, but it tends to be pretty conservative in this respect since
> the two goals are in conflict.
>
> To the extent that your problem prevented you from using Emacs but
> did not make you lose work (presumably), then I'd consider that the
> efforts we make to "prevent bad things" were successful.
> Maybe not a resounding success, admittedly.
>
>
>         Stefan
>
>

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