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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

Geoffrey Derber wrote:

> Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
>
> > > in another thread. ;-)
> > surely have to deal with the update problem, but that should take place
> > I'm trying to steer discussion in a way that I think is more 
> > productive. I may be wrong, but that kind of goes with every message 
> > I send.
>
>
> I think it's a problem we'd have to deal with anyways.  Largely 
> because even if we did not split our grimoire, we allow other people 
> to create their own, and with growth, I'm seeing more public custom 
> grimiores.  If people start using these other grimoire too, we'd still 
> have to deal with this issue.
>
> The other way would be to go completely back to the way we were prior 
> to allowing multiple grimoires. 

Maybe, but let me bring FreeBSD as an example. How many alternative 
"grimoires" does it have? Zero. Is it popular? Yes, much more than SMGL. 
What I'm saying is that, having a smart update mechanism, we'd 
consolidate things and remove complexity. Multiple grimoires added 
complexity, and inter-grimoire dependencies are bringing more complexity 
on top of this. This doesn't sound like the right way of solving 
problems, which is to remove complexity.

Sergey.