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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

>
>
> I'm not trying to come down on you, Eric, but I agree with Nick, and
> your  previous post is a good example:
>
> optional_depends "Linux-PAM"           \
>                  "--flag-for-swat"     \
>                  "--flag-for-no-swat"  \
>                  "for SWAT support"
>
> This is only useful for people who know what SWAT is and why one would
> want  it.  A better one liner might be: "to be able to configure SAMBA
> via a  Web-based interface"
>
> There are many spells in the grimoire with worse definitions than the
> one you  proposed:
>
> optional_depends "widget" "" "" "for widget support"
>
> This is almost totally useless.  What does widget support get me?  Why
> do I  want it?  Is widget support a good thing, or does it just take up
> hard drive  space?  I can't even make an educated guess, based on that
> information.
>
> I had a spell I cast a couple of weeks ago with several of those sorts
> of  optional deps in there.  I had no idea if I wanted the optional
> stuff or not.   I didn't know what they were supposed to do to or for
> the spell I wanted to  install.  A little more verbage to clarify those
> optional deps is, IMO, A  Good Thing(tm).
>
> Again, I'm not trying to attack you.  I'm just trying to shed a little
> light  on the subject.

Jason,

Ahh, I see your point, though mine was aimed at something else.  ;)  Yes,
they need more descriptions, and I think ones like mine should be the
"bare minimum", however, my example was aimed at the way to enable things
like SWAT, or to give the option of not doing so.

With our powers combined, we are....ehh, yeah, anyway, both of us are
correct, since we we're talking about different things (because I missed
the what you were actually talking about ;)).

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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