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  • From: "Ryan Abrams" <rabrams AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: <eric AT sandall.us>, <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] optional_depends descriptions?
  • Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 15:29:14 -0600

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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