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

nealbirch said:
> Casey Harkins wrote:
>> I recently installed a new machine, did a 'system-update', cast a few
>> spells, then started a 'sorcery rebuild'. Came back the next day to
>> find that nothing had rebuilt because the init.d spell was waiting for
>> input on which scripts should be updated.
>>
>> Would it be reasonable to assume some sort of defaults for these
>> dialogs and use the --timeout option to dialog to prevent sorcery from
>> blocking?
>
> Yes it would. I will get on it this week. Sorry for the delay.
>
> The issue is, is it always a good idea to default one way or the other
> all the time? Should the script default to towards "do nothing" or
> "update" and when? Does it matter?
>
> Neal

Well, the apparent "safe" option would be to do nothing, but then again,
not having the updated scripts may break something (though not very
likely), so I say go with the "do nothing by default" approach, and if
this causes problems, we can work that out.

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