Re: Simplification of faces

[Jason Rumney]

Richard Stallman wrote:
> However, this would require rewriting the code that calls
> `set-face-attribute' and the older functions such as
> `set-face-foreground' that set single attributes.  There are only
> about 8 packages in Emacs which do so, so it would not be a big job.
> However, there may be some other programs that users use which still
> rely on this feature.
>   
Maybe it would help developers of those other programs to mark those
functions as obsolete in 22.2, even though we will not change them until
22.1.