bug#11514: 24.0.97; gnus-user-agent no longer sets up Gcc

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Romain Francoise <romain@orebokech.com> writes:

> Which is rather suboptimal... if the user explicitly configured
> `gnus-user-agent' then we should start enough Gnus bits to make Gcc
> (and other Gnus features) work. If that's not possible then it should
> complain loudly about the downgrade, or refuse to work at all. Losing
> outgoing mail isn't nice.

No, it's not, but we really kinda have to start all of Gnus to make Gcc
handling work completely.  So if you have `gnus-user-agent', and just
start Emacs to send off a single email, then you'd be sitting there
waiting for Gnus to start.

I've added a warning message to Ma Gnus now, though.

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