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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: RE: Re: [SM-Discuss] Source Mage as general purpose installer
  • Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 21:33:12 -0800

Quoting evraire AT tuwg.com:
> Hello,
>
> > I was thinking we'd install the standard commands, and then the 'theme'
> would
> > just install symlinks to the appropriate command.
>
> This is a good first step, but if you just type the command some of our
> help instances refer to things like "spell" and "grimoire"... "gaze
> grimoire"
> is an excellent example of this... in other themes, I'm sure a "grimoire"
> wouldn't make any sense.
>
> I think to make this work properly will need support for theming at a
> lower
> level.

Since it's bash we could replace the hard-coded references to the package with
"$0", but the docs would be a different matter, as well as the naming
conventions. It'll take more work than simple symlinks, but using those would
simplify the command part, at least.

-sandalle

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