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> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 19:05:29 -0400
> 
> Something can be in a separate manual and be a recommended part of
> Emacs facilities.

I don't think it ever worked in practice (not the recommendation
part--that's easy--but the actual use part).  Do you have any
examples?

> We certainly would not document a MIME library in the Emacs Lisp
> manual, because it is useful only for mail readers, and that is too
> specialized.

It is no less specialized than primitives like base64-decode-region.