Re: lisp/gnus/.dir-locals.el

[Juanma Barranquero]

>> At the very least, the file should be marked as "no-byte-compile", or
>> something else should be done to avoid this warning.
>
> You could also argue that the byte-compler should know better than to
> try and byte-compile a file called ".dir-locals.el" which we hence know
> doesn't hold Elisp code (only Elisp data).

That's special-casing the byte-compiler, when we already have a
perfectly good way to tell it to ignore a file.

(Not to mention that, though strongly non-recommended, the value of
`dir-locals-file' could be locally different in any given project and
so the name of the locals file.)

    Juanma