Re: modus-themes ELPA and etc/themes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:52:39 -0400
> 
> The problem is due to the fact that the file is under `etc/themes` and
> is hence not processed by our autoloads machinery which would otherwise
> add something like
> 
>     (push (purecopy '(modus-themes 1 2 4)) package--builtin-versions)
> 
> to lisp/loaddefs.el.
> 
> There are various ways to fix this, but to me the simplest would be to
> move `etc/themes` to `lisp` (or at least to move `modus-themes.el`).

I'd rather we didn't move files around.  If nothing else, it makes
forensics harder down the line.  Besides, we had themes in that place
for too long to make such changes now, and for this minor reason on
top of that.

Why can't we take any of the other ways to fix this?