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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> It's all autoloaded, so the user will get an error when he searches.  I
> can do an assert in `auth-source-secrets-search' to fail early or fail
> even earlier in `auth-source-backend-parse'.  WDYT?

If there are no compilation errors, I believe it is OK to fail with a
meaningful message.

However, it gives the burden to the user to initialize auth-sources
depending on availability of secrets.el. So maybe it is more convenient
to ignore :secrets entries in such a case, raising a warning (with
confirmation to continue).

> Ted

Best regards, Michael.