Re: mh-e/mh-acros.el advices `require' incorrectly

[Bill Wohler]

Richard M. Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>     The origianl `require' returns FEATURE even if it is already
>     provided, but the adviced `require' returns nil in such a
>     case.
> 
> Packages in Emacs are not supposed to advise other parts of Emacs.
> So really the right thing to do is get rid of this advising.
> It is not clean for `require' to work differently in a certain
> part of Emacs.
> 
> Bill, what was the reason for this?

I trust you've seen Satyaki's and Stefan's messages by now. I'm happy to
remove the defadvice as soon as the problem it works around has been
solved. Perhaps we can install Stefan's patch or one like it.

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