> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 10:30:54 -0700
> Cc: bug-gnulib@gnu.org, la...@gnus.org, 57...@debbugs.gnu.org,
>  jporterb...@gmail.com, br...@clisp.org
> From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> On 8/16/22 10:04, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > That "finite number" of 62^6 sounds pretty close to infinity to me!
> 
> It's only 57 billion or so. That's not infinity

Yeah, right.

> Since we have the patch to prevent it, why not install it?

Because it isn't needed, and is a weird thing to do.  It also slows
down make-temp-file, especially when a session has a lot of buffers
and with remote file names.  So thanks, but no, thanks.

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