Re: Enhancements to "minor-mode-map-alist" functionality.

[Richard Stallman]

    Giving each package the ability to maintain individual alists means that 
they
    don't need any extra code to ensure that no other packages have messed it 
up.

That may be true, but I'd like to see what the issue is more concretely.
If cua and viper tried to use one alist, what would they have to do
to prevent it from being messed up?  What does "messed up" mean in this
context?