Re: problem of define-minor-mode while bootstrapping

[Richard Stallman]

    > The reason for this little piece of code is so as to call (foo-mode 1) 
when
    > people do (setq foo-mode t) in their .emacs and then load foo-mode.el.
    > But people shouldn't use (setq foo-mode t), they should use (foo-mode 1)
    > instead anyway.
    > So I'd rather use that code less often rather than more often.

    CAn we just get rid of it?

I'd rather not do that.
It would be an incompatible change, and I don't see
enough reason for one.