On Mon, Dec 13 2010, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen wrote:

>> Or we could provide a prefix for each method, just without the backend
>> name in front of it. So you can still set it to "" if you have one
>> primary, and to "WhatEver" so you can prefix the other methods.
>
> That'll still be a distinction between primary and non-primary, wouldn't
> it? 

Well, if you set no prefix for a method, you can call it "primary" for
sure. But that's up to you. And that could fit in a single variable
`gnus-methods', no need for two variables. And the rest of the Gnus code
would be a lot clearer. :)

Or we just force every methods to have a prefix, so we only handle
something that looks like current secondary methods?

w> Nooo.  I certainly don't want to subscribe to all the new groups from
> Gmane, Gwene and eternal-september.org...

Err. I understand that. :-D
Well, so using the method type to decide is probably still the best.

> I've fixed is differently, but I'm wondering whether to get rid of
> gnus-options-subscribe and/or gnus-auto-subscribed-groups and/or
> gnus-options-not-subscribe.  That's a ridiculous number of variables for
> doing pretty much the same thing...

+1

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