Re: `remote-shell-program' should be customizable

[Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     * Most of this should be done at runtime, not in paths.el, which is
>       dumped.  There's no reason that rmail-spool-directory should be the
>       same on the target system as the build system, for instance -- it's
>       rather random on systems I'm familiar with.
>
> That sounds like a good improvement, if it is done right,
> so that any settings made by the user are not overriddem once
> relevant packages are read.

I'm not sure what you mean.  There would just be a defvar or defcustom
in the relevant file, with something similar to what's in paths.el as
default.