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["Ryan Abrams" <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>]

Did Someone say "Captain Planet!"?

No? Ok. sorry. false alarm.

-Ryan

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>
To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] optional_depends descriptions?


> 
> >
> >
> > 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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