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Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:

Didier Verna <didier@lrde.epita.fr> writes:

> If there's no objection, I will apply the following patch to the CVS archive.

Looks fine to me, interesting solution to the lack of dynamic custom
types. 

> When using personal backends and notably loading them after gnus
> itself, the select-method widget should be recomputed in order to
> know the new backend and avoid mismatches in custom buffers.

It doesn't really solve this problem though, if you attempt to
customize the value before all backends are loaded.  There should be
an "other/unknown" entry as well.