Subject: Re: bug#48342: native-comp emacs gets into an infinite loop at startup if no .el files are available

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 23:23:53 +0300

> From: Dima Kogan <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Gregory Heytings <[email-masked]>, [email-masked],
>  [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 12:59:27 -0700
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Imagine the plight of a user who needs to discover all these places
> > just to have the sources available.
> 
> I suppose you have a point, but this concern is much bigger than just
> emacs.

That there's a larger problem out there doesn't mean we shouldn't
strive to get our act together in our small corner.  It isn't a
justification, not IMO anyway.