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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> True.  Hm.  Using both a variable and a face seem to be common
>> practice though, I wonder if there are other reasons.  Maybe face
>> inheritance is a recent feature?  I dunno.
>
> I believe it is.  The custom attribute is only from 2000, and I know
> these faces are a lot older than that.  I don't know if there's a big
> reason to change it, but it might make M-x customize-group gnus a bit
> cleaner.  

IIRC, font-lock was changed several times between using variables and
not using variables.  I have no idea, why.
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