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Colin Rafferty <craffert@ms.com> writes:

> > Or maybe the concerned variables should be defined in a separate 
> > file instead of in their respective libs ? 
> 
> I vote for your third solution.
> 
> This seems to be the simplest way to deal with large packages with
> lots of variables, all of which need to be customized.
> 
> vm, cc-mode, and w3 all do it this way, and it makes sense.

It makes sense in one way, but in other ways it doesn't.  For
instance, putting variables in one whopping big file means that they
aren't local to the functionality being provided.  So even if you
don't plan on using picons, you'll get a gazillion picons-related
variables defined when you start Gnus.

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