bug#17272: bug#19064: 25.0.50; `message' overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt, so user misses it

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net> writes:

> Message "Package cl is deprecated" that overwrites `y-or-n-p' prompt
> issued by desktop.el could be fixed by this patch (requires another
> patch from bug#38076):

[...]

> -                         (message "%s" msg))
> +                            (if (minibufferp)
> +                                (minibuffer-message "%s" msg)
> +                              (message "%s" msg)))

Wouldn't it make more sense to just have `message' behave like
`minibuffer-message' if '(minibufferp)'?  Otherwise all async code will
have to have this code snippet.

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