Re: master 0161c9d 1/2: Load all generic-x.el modes unconditionally

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>,  larsi@gnus.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2021 17:00:13 -0500
> 
> > I don't see a discussion, just an opinion that some variable should go
> > away.  Can't we remove it without activating all the modes?
> [...]
> > How did you intend to handle the backward compatibility issues?
> 
> I'm not sure which kinds of backward compatibility issues you're
> thinking of.
> 
> AFAIK none of the functions defined in `generic-x` overlap with other
> packages, so there shouldn't be any conflict or
> backward incompatibility.
> 
> What am I missing?

What do we tell all those (myself included) who require generic-x in
their init files?

And while at that: why did you think that variable was ugly and had to
go?