When did backend marks become mandatory?

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* When did backend marks become mandatory?
@ 2010-09-01 16:05 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  2010-09-01 16:21 ` Teemu Likonen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2010-09-01 16:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding

I get the following error now and then:

Error reading nntp marks file /home/larsi/News/marks/news.eternal-september.org/comp/emacs/ ((error IO error reading /home/larsi/News/marks/news.eternal-september.org/comp/emacs/: Is a directory)).  Continuing will use marks from .newsrc.eld.  Continue? (y or n) 

I haven't requested backend marks, and I don't want them.  And I can't
find any way to disable them.  Would anybody mind very much if I
introduce a `gnus-user-marks' variable and default it to nil?  That'd
probably speed up normal Gnus usage greatly.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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* Re: When did backend marks become mandatory?
  2010-09-01 16:05 When did backend marks become mandatory? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2010-09-01 16:21 ` Teemu Likonen
  2010-09-01 20:20   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Teemu Likonen @ 2010-09-01 16:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding

* 2010-09-01 18:05 (+0200), Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I get the following error now and then:
>
> Error reading nntp marks file /home/larsi/News/marks/news.eternal-september.org/comp/emacs/ ((error IO error reading /home/larsi/News/marks/news.eternal-september.org/comp/emacs/: Is a directory)).  Continuing will use marks from .newsrc.eld.  Continue? (y or n) 
>
> I haven't requested backend marks, and I don't want them. And I can't
> find any way to disable them. Would anybody mind very much if I
> introduce a `gnus-user-marks' variable and default it to nil? That'd
> probably speed up normal Gnus usage greatly.

I have seen the same or very similar error message too. I described the
issue and my personal work-around hack here:

    http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5656



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* Re: When did backend marks become mandatory?
  2010-09-01 16:21 ` Teemu Likonen
@ 2010-09-01 20:20   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2010-09-01 20:20 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ding

Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> writes:

> I have seen the same or very similar error message too. I described the
> issue and my personal work-around hack here:
>
>     http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=5656

I've now made the code not do anything if nntp-marks-file-name is nil.
It's a workaround, but it should make the bug go away.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen




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