Re: pop3.el itegration with netrc.el

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

>> So perhaps we can make this one the canonical copy, and add new
>> features to it.  I'd say go ahead.
>
> Dave Love pointed out that `pop3.el' could be used outside Gnus and
> suggested to remove the nn-whatever dependencies.  If we think that
> this is a valuable goal, we should avoid adding further dependencies.
>
> ,----[ http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs/3974 ]
> | pop3.el shouldn't use nnheader-accept-process-output, so it can be
> | used outside Gnus.
> `----

I agree, but I wouldn't consider netrc.el, password.el nor encrypt.el
as something part of Gnus, even though they technically are.  They are
(or will be) small standalone libraries.

But the nn* dependency is bad, using nn* will lead to loading parts of
Gnus.  Can't we write a pop3-accept-process-output, and drop the
nnheader dependency?  Seems simple.