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Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>
>> You mean changing gnus source?  I meant for users.
>
> Well, users can customize all the Gnus faces to inherit from the same
> face.

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.