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diff --git a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
index 4a5d86db12a..f990c82e665 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/gnus/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2012-05-24 Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
+ * nnspool.el (news-directory, news-path): Move here from paths.el.
+ Don't see a need for these to be autoloaded.
+
* gnus.el (gnus-default-nntp-server): Make it a defcustom.
Merge in doc from paths.el version. Don't see any need for this to be
autoloaded, or for the warning about users not setting it.
diff --git a/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el b/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el
index 2b024e20740..3c197b92b27 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/nnspool.el
@@ -31,6 +31,15 @@
(require 'nnoo)
(eval-when-compile (require 'cl))
+;; Probably this entire thing should be obsolete.
+;; It's only used to init nnspool-spool-directory, so why not just
+;; set that variable's default directly?
+(defvar news-directory (if (file-exists-p "/usr/spool/news/")
+ "/usr/spool/news/"
+ "/var/spool/news/")
+ "The root directory below which all news files are stored.")
+(defvaralias 'news-path 'news-directory)
+
(nnoo-declare nnspool)
(defvoo nnspool-inews-program news-inews-program