Subject: bug#37926: [PATCH] Unify Gnus select methods

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:04:59 +0100

[email-masked] writes:

> It doesn't fix anything.  I think Eric Abrahamsen adequately describes the
> change in a parallel thread.

Not really -- he says that it complicates things, but not exactly is
meant to be achieved by the patch.

> The introduction of a separate `gnus-secondary-select-methods` rather than
> merely vectorizing `gnus-select-method` seems a youthful indiscretion that's
> persisted to the present-day.

No, it was done to retain backwards compatibility.

> The "insider" convention of specifying a primary of `nnnil` to
> symmetrize one's other backends has caused a collective double-take
> among newer users like myself.

Very few people use the nnnil thing -- all it gives you is that you
don't get any unprefixed groups.

So again I ask you -- what does your patch do?  Does it make all the
groups prefixed?  If you can't explain what the patch does, it doesn't
seem likely to be applied.

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