Re: [PATCH] * tramp-sh.el (tramp-optimize-remote-path): Add it.

[Andrey Portnoy]

Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

>> Yes, both my patches are variations on a very similar approach, which is
>> to skip the checks and the setting when two criteria are fullfilled:
>>
>> 1. tramp-remote-path is '(tramp-own-remote-path), and
>
> OK.
>
>> 2. tramp-optimize-remote-path is set to nil.
>>
>> The reasons I think tramp-optimize-remote-path should exist are:
>>
>> - provide backward compatibility for users who have been expecting the
>>   checks to always be there
>>
>> - provide the ability to disable them for all possible values of
>>   tramp-remote-path, and not just when '(tramp-own-remote-path)
>
> As I told already, I don't see this need. If we offer this as general
> configurTION OPTION, people will set this option blindly to nil, and
> will wonder if Tramp changes its behavior and/or runs into trouble. And
> we'll see the error reports then.
>
> Pls continue, with just 1.

Ok sounds good. So just to confirm, the idea is to disable
checks/deduplication if and only if tramp-remote-path is equal to
'(tramp-own-remote-path)?