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[Jens Laas <jens.laas AT data.slu.se>]

(02.09.20 kl.08:13) Eric Schabell skrev följande till Nick Jennings and...:

> > 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!

The first thing I loved about SGL and later SMGL was the simplicity.
Please! No more feature creep.

I think Nicks proposed change is probably for the best.

Maybe try find some more sorcerous names.. "system-update" just does not
have that magical ring to it.

Regards,
Jens Låås


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