Re: unload-feature questions and thoughts

[Juanma Barranquero]

On 10/14/07, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

> People have suggested two ways to make a compatible change.
> One is to add FEATURE-unload-function in parallel.
> The other is to move the standard code to delete from hooks
> into a subroutine which FEATURE-unload-hook can call.
>
> I prefer the latter way.

But these are not equivalent. FEATURE-unload-function would allow
packages with uncommon unload strategies to do all unloading by
themselves (by passing a flag back to unload-feature not to do any
more unloading), but still use the unload-feature machinery to check
feature dependencies, for example.

             Juanma