bug#27170: 26.0.50; Suggestion: Optionally send package build output to log file not *Messages*

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: rms@gnu.org,  nljlistbox2@gmail.com,  27170@debbugs.gnu.org,
>   stefankangas@gmail.com
> Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2022 16:52:56 +0100
> 
> > So basically, binding this variable will actually _split_ the messages
> > between *Messages* and some other buffer.
> 
> Of course a binding has no effect on code that runs after the binding is
> over -- we don't note this in the documentation for, say,
> `print-length', so I'm not sure why we'd note this in relation to this
> variable either.

The point I was trying to make was that echo-area messages we see
don't necessarily come from code of the command, and so having a
command bind the variable might not catch all of the messages.