bug#33563: 27.0.50; Autoload generation during package installation pollutes recent-files list

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 01/12/2018 15.19, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 33563@debbugs.gnu.org
>> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2018 15:01:17 -0500
>>
>>> Why can't you use the existing facilities in recentf to filter out
>>> unwanted files from the list of recent files?
>>
>> Is that possible?  As far as I can tell recentf only filters by file name.  
>> That doesn't seem to be enough, since we do want to record some autoload 
>> files (those visited by users, but not those opened automatically by 
>> autoload.el).
> 
> You could let-bind recentf-exclude while installing packages, couldn't
> you?

Indeed. Although wouldn't we want to let-bind it in 
autoload-find-generated-file, rather?
And, in that case, isn't it odd to have recentf-related code in autoload.el?

Clément.