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bug#52400: [PATCH] Don't generate separate autoload file for htmlfontify
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#52400: [PATCH] Don't generate separate autoload file for htmlfontify.el |
Date: |
Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:46:45 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:22:12 +0000
> Cc: 52400@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I say why take the risks, however low, if the problem is not serious
> > enough?
>
> Cruft inevitably adds to cognitive load.
But it isn't cruft. You tend to declare something "cruft" too easily.
> We have a lot of it, IMO, so every little bit helps.
No, we don't. Please don't consider cruft anything that you think is
not right; there's more than one way to skin a fish. People who
worked on Emacs before us weren't exactly incompetent, you know.
> The problem is that if it exists, you will sometimes happen to look at
> it and think "hmm, why is this file here". I think this is the second
> (or third?) time I stumble upon this particular file.
Just get used to it being there, I say. It doesn't do any harm,
although you seem to think it does.
We have enough real problems to deal with.