Re: Lisp files that load cl-lib in problematical ways

[Richard Stallman]

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  > But as we have seen in practice it _is_ loaded, be it by the
  > debugger, by native compilation, or any other package or piece
  > of Elisp that uses it,

Let's fix the debugger, and native compilation, not to load cl-lib.

It's not so bad if you load a specialized package that serves your code
and it uses cl-lib.  But the debugger can be loaded to debug anything,
even programs you have nothing to do with.  It's rude for the debugger
to load cl-lib.

Likewise for native compilation.  You might recompile anything.

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