Re: Bootstrap broken between 2893cb6a21af3384cf5d6dc2b6bbdd5ebba8e1ad and 469fe6a040d6df612c00ea169670c6d8d7e58563

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Yes, I think that sounds like a good idea -- I have no idea why rmail
  > has its own loaddefs in the first place.

I think this goes back to the days when it was important for Emacs to
fit in a machine with 1 meg of memory space, not virtualized.

Rmail consisted of several Lisp files, each with its own autoloads,
and none of those autoloads was needed until rmail.el had been loaded.
rmail-loaddefs.el enabled who did not use Rmail to avoid sacrificing
space for those autoloads.

This is completely unnecessary nowadays.

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