On Mon, Aug 08, 2022 at 09:24:28AM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote: > Given where we are, do you really mean > > we should withdraw every module from autoload that does not have a > documented test result, right now? > > It seems far better to have them stay loaded than be unavailable.
I'm not sure (and given Taylor's reply it is not easily doable anyway). However, I find the idea of offering auto-loadable modules which we do not fully trust kind of disturbing. On the other hand we have not heard[1] of many crash reports that are due to auto-unload, so maybe the problem is not that bad after all and we could fix the broken ones when we catch them. Martin 1: which might be just because the feature not being exercised very often