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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Eric Sandall wrote:
> However, this brings up another point: Do we want to have Sorcery defaults 
> be
> sane defaults to have everything work and keep going, or default to not 
> change
> anything unless specified? What I mean is in the above, would we want 
> Sorcery
> to default to 'y' that way unattended casts (and attended ones) have a 
> default
> option that would make the new cast work, or do we want Sorcery to default 
> to
> not do anything if it would change another package?
> 

I think defaulting to not change anything unless specified is the better 
option. If that means not updating a spell because a dependency would need 
to be re-cast with new options, then that spell should fail. I mentioned 
the openldap and krb5 dependencies I gained from doing an unattended 
update, definitely not desired behavior.

-casey