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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:35:03AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 08:32:41PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 11:22:45AM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > I think it would be nice to have that in sorcery, with one additional
> > > > requirement: it has to be possible to overwrite it from a spell, i.e.
> > > > set some variable in a spell DETAILS that tells sorcery not to use the
> > > > section function overrides.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > If you give me a name for the file and the variable to turn sourcing of
> > > the file off I'll add it to sorcery for testing/using.
> > > 
> > > -Andrew
> >  
> > How about FUNCTIONS for the file and USE_DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS=on for the
> > setting in DETAILS?
> > 
> So if USE_DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS is on then sorcery won't look in FUNCTIONS.
> Should the default value of USE_DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS be off (look in
> FUNCTIONS).
 
I'd say default should be off. The whole setting is mostly useful for
sections like perl-cpan and php-pear, so having it default to reading
FUNCTIONS when it exists should be sane.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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