;; It's only used to init nnspool-spool-directory, so why not just
;; set that variable's default directly?
(eval-and-compile
- (defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory)
+ (define-obsolete-variable-alias 'news-path 'news-directory "30.1")
(defvar news-directory (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
"/usr/spool/news/"
"/var/spool/news/")
If you are using Cnews, you probably should set this variable to nil.")
(defvoo nnspool-spool-directory
- (file-name-as-directory (if (boundp 'news-directory)
- (symbol-value 'news-directory)
- news-path))
+ (file-name-as-directory news-directory)
"Local news spool directory.")
(defvoo nnspool-nov-directory (concat nnspool-spool-directory "over.view/")