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Andreas Fuchs <asf@void.at> wrote:
> On 2002-04-23, Kai Gro=DFjohann <Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE> wrot=
e:
>> Are you sure you aren't mixing Gnus versions?  For example, it does
>> not work to (add-to-list 'load-path "~/path/to/gnus/lisp/") from the
>> ~/.gnus file, as most of Gnus has been loaded already by that time.
>
> I add the path as soon as possible; Even when I start emacs with -q, the
> features are present. Could that be a debian emacs bug?

Probably some parts of Gnus are being loaded from site-start.el.  So
start Emacs with --no-site-file and then after frobbing load-path,
explicitly load site-start in your .emacs.


paul