On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:47:18 +0100 Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote: 

MA> 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?

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

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

Something like this, except using another warning facility besides
`auth-source-do-debug'?  I assume (featurep 'secrets) will work even
if autoloading is used.

Ted