Stefan Monnier <monn...@iro.umontreal.ca> writes: > - outdated .elc file taking precedence over the new .el file can do > the same.
I find this warning quite useful. Consider this, all happening because of what is in .emacs. 1. Something in .emacs causes org-x to be loaded from Vanilla Emacs. 2. Load path changed to point to a git checkout. 3. User does something which loads org-y. org-y comes from (2). The chain of events ends up with requiring an org-x. org-x WASN'T RE-LOADED because the symbol is provided. Ofcourse, it is provided from the wrong place. In case of (3), a warning that says "I refuse to have mutiple personality disorder". A warning during Emacs initing could be missed. So if there is a command line option to trigger an abrupt-end, we could advise the user to enable it and say "You have got a problem in your init file. Not the Org-mode that is distributed." This will serve to remove endless amount of confusion. What I am saying, even if we couldn't solve the problem cleanly, a simple warning that says "Something fishy" will greatly reduce the user complaints in the Org list. I am not sure how much of what I typed makes sense. But I type nevertheless, people read it or ignore it. --
