Re: Emacs local variables sections in files; time-stamping

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/22/2011 03:24 PM, Glenn Morris wrote:
> Because `eval' is potentially risky

Yes, and I'd rather that we removed that stuff entirely.
The minor advantage of having time stamps in the text
of the files is outweighed by the major disadvantage
of the files' all being attack vectors.

Even if the time stamps are maintained in the original,
it would make sense to remove the Local Variables sections
from the copies installed via gnulib, since changes to
the copies should not update those time stamps.  Perhaps
gnulib-tool should be modified to do that by default?