Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:49:35 -0500
> From: Mark Oteiza <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> > What about the second?  Doing that would fix the use case reported in
> > bug#12370, without obfuscating anything else.
> 
> I suppose I'd be amenable letting the value be a regex, but I doubt
> anyone here will agree to it! ;)

No, not a regexp.  It would be easy to come up with a regexp that
disables this for any user.  I meant a list of constant strings.

> Joke aside, to do so would be enhancing that which I'm arguing is
> a misfeature, so nope. Sorry.

Well, I think you understand by now that some of us think it's a
feature.