Re: [PATCH] Re: etags name collision.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 13:13:02 +0200
> From: Ergus <spacibba@aol.com>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >But then the test should be more specific, and check if there would be a
> >file collision at the actual target location (with the name modified by
> >--program-transform-name, if applicable). If there's no collision (e.g.
> >Emacs ctags has a different name) then Emacs should install it.
> >
> If we don't do that with mailutils why should we do it with ctags...

Our mailutils is a security risk of sorts, because it doesn't support
modern secured protocols for fetching email.

The ctags issue is different: there's no security risks involved, only
functionality and features.  Thus, it's justified to treat these cases
differently, as regards to the default.