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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>]

However stupid that may sound, but aren't all these problems going to go 
away if `prepare_install' is *not* called in BUILD?

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'd like to get a discussion going about this, perhaps some better ideas
> will come of it (There are things I like about this idea, and things
> I don't like).
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Nick Jennings
> Sorcery Team Lead
>
>