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[Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>]

> On Thursday 19 September 2002 21:38, Nick Jennings wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
>  I've been thinking long and hard about the problems we've run into
>  with the sorcery spell. I don't want to get into the details of these
>  problems (that's another discussion), but I was thinking of a semi
>  major change to the sorcery command.
>
>  We'd no longer have sorcery be a spell at all. It would be updated
>  via it's own command line parameter. The various params would be
>  something line this:
>
> sorcery update        : Only updates the sorcery spell, based on which
>                         branch you are tracking (set in the sorcery menu).
>
> sorcery system-update : This would do the actions sorcery update currently
>                         does (update grimoire, spells etc.)
>
> sorcery queue         : Generates a queue of spells that need to be
>                         updated. This could also be system-queue, not
>                         sure.
>
>
I would tend to agree (to the splitting out of spelldom), except I don't like 
the changing of the options.... this has been done already and as it now 
stands it remains simple and comprehensible.... lets not take the road that 
Gentoo has taken and supplied so many options to make the developers happy 
that the users are often lost as to what to do (has been in the news lately).

Remember KISS!

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Regards,

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