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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer
- From: Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>
- To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer
- Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 06:55:01 -0800
On Thursday 29 January 2004 9:24 pm, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Josh Fuhs <fuhs AT purdue.edu>:
> > Wow, this project has more than I thought it did.
> >
> > It seems that making the change to allow users to use sorcery would
> > require a
> > bit more than changing the install path and removing the 'su'. As it is,
> > there
> > is absolute certainty that whoever is using sorcery has superuser
> > priveleges. So
> > caches, grimoires, etc. can be trusted.
> >
> > It would be ideal if regular users could be given (almost) all the
> > functionality
> > of the superuser (modify their own grimoire, cast spells, dispel, etc),
> > but without compromising the integrity of the superuser system.
> >
> > Perhaps you've already accounted for this in the system, and I'm just
> > rambling
> > about a lot of nothing.
> >
> > If I find myself with a significant amount of free time, I'll look
> > through the
> > source. It would be nice to know where I could find documents with
> > respect to
> > the requirements and design of the system.
> >
> > Josh
>
> Most of those would require a little more abstraction to our current
> Sorcery than is in there, yes, but it shouldn't take much. Just make two
> layers, one for normal (root) operation (which it does now), the other for
> a normal user, who could have his own config settings, would need his own
> writeable cache (but could still use the global one for reading, along with
> configs so that it's not required that he have a whole copy of Sorcery).
> Our Sorcery Team is looking for volunteers, so if you'd even like to help
> with the current setup you could, just to get more familiar with the
> internals, which may make implementing your idea easier. :)
>
> -sandalle
OK, now this thread is starting to go down a path I have been contemplating
quite a bit, lately.
It seems to me that Source Mage is a prime candidate for creating a kind of
themed Linux distribution. (No groans, please.) :^) It would take a bit of
work and would be more of a feature request for the 2.0 version, but I think
it would be possible to make the commands, terminology, etc. used in Source
Mage generic enough and abstracted enough that it would be possible to apply
different themes to the various parts of SMGL.
One could make the commands, terminology, etc. more specific to LOTR, for
example. Or take it into the other genre, and use terms in Star Wars or Star
Trek or ... The default, of course, would be Source Mage.
Thoughts?
--
Jason Flatt (jason @ flattfamily . com)
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[SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Josh Fuhs, 01/29/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, Paul, 01/29/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Eric Sandall, 01/29/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, Eric Sandall, 01/29/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Eric Sandall, 01/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, David Kowis, 01/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Jason Flatt, 01/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, Unet, 01/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, Paul, 01/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Eric Sandall, 01/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Paul, 01/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, Hamish Greig, 01/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Paul, 01/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Eric Sandall, 01/30/2004
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Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer,
Ricardo Izquierdo, 01/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, Eric Sandall, 01/30/2004
- Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer, Ricardo Izquierdo, 01/30/2004
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