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Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:

> We are also working to replace redundant code for locating our packages'
> images and updating image-load-path (load-path in Emacs 21) with a
> single function in image.el.
>
> Our question for you is this: should such a function actually modify the
> image-load-path (as MH-E does now), or simply return a modified version
> of image-load-path for use in a scoped variable copy of image-load-path
> (as Gnus does now)?

IMO, using a scoped copy is cleaner.  Is there any reason to modify
the image-load-path permanently?