From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/50620 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: convert from setq to customization Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:56:14 -0500 Organization: =?koi8-r?q?=F4=C5=CF=C4=CF=D2=20=FA=CC=C1=D4=C1=CE=CF=D7?= @ Cienfuegos Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <4nof4o2xc1.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> References: <86u1em4wdn.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <4nadg9fsw2.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046973408 7762 80.91.224.249 (6 Mar 2003 17:56:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 17:56:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Thu Mar 06 18:56:46 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qzbq-00020u-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 18:56:46 +0100 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 18qzbd-0004Cd-00; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:56:33 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Thu, 06 Mar 2003 11:57:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (sclp3.sclp.com [66.230.238.2]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA06954 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:57:21 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 16972 invoked by alias); 6 Mar 2003 17:56:15 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 16967 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2003 17:56:15 -0000 Original-Received: from clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (134.174.9.41) by 66.230.238.6 with SMTP; 6 Mar 2003 17:56:15 -0000 Original-Received: from lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (lockgroove [134.174.9.133]) by clifford.bwh.harvard.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h26HuEj02045 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:56:14 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: (from tzz@localhost) by lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.0) id h26HuEc21669; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 12:56:14 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6;d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Per Abrahamsen's message of "Thu, 06 Mar 2003 08:45:50 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090016 (Oort Gnus v0.16) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:50620 On Thu, 06 Mar 2003, abraham@dina.kvl.dk wrote: > User options, i.e. anything declared by defcustom or defface, should > only be modified the user, either by setq's in .emacs or > interactivly through customize. > > If it is done by other Lisp packages, they risk conflicting with the > users choices. What if package A has variable A1, which needs to be overridden by package B because of variable B1? For example, spam.el requires nnimap-split-download-body in nnimap.el to be set if a statistical filter is selected, so the whole message body is downloaded. Thanks Ted