Re: loadup.el, You LIE! (21.2.42 + a few hours CVS]

Stephen> Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] writes: Stephen> Well, maybe it hasn't changed, but there's something wrong if _at Stephen> build time_ core Lisp gets shadowed by stuff in the Stephen> packages. Stephen> Me, too. Same rules (ie, for finding XEmacs roots, etc). Stephen> But they can be applied somewhat differently. I don't think the Stephen> XEmacs binary should depend on which packages a user happens to have Stephen> installed, unless the user chooses explicitly to dump some packages. Stephen> Right now, _anybody with package commit access_ can shadow a core Stephen> file, and change the default behavior of many XEmacs binaries built Stephen> thereafter---and we don't even have any way to guess which ones. This Stephen> is not "desirable rule-based behavior". Stephen> Note that _binary packages_ have _less_ implicit dependence on other Stephen> packages than the XEmacs binary does now! If you read on in my reply, you'll find I agree with you. Can you give me some decision support? :-) -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla