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

On Sun, Apr 25, 2004 at 03:40:11PM -0400, Sergey A. Lipnevich wrote:
> I believe the name would be misleading, it shouldn't be negative. Maybe 
> SECTION_FUNCTIONS=[on|off]. I believe that a default should be "on" to 
> always check for <spell>/../FUNCTIONS and source it, unless 
> SECTION_FUNCTIONS=off. I believe this is cheap and consistent with usage 
> of other files, such as PRE_INSTALL or POST_REMOVE (you don't tell 
> sorcery anything to use these). Other variants: SECTION_INHERIT, or even 
> SECTION_LIB.

You're right, that makes more sense. I'd say SECTION_FUNCTIONS is the
best name to go with a file named FUNCTIONS.

> Andrew wrote:
> 
> >>>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.
> >>
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Too much inverting here...
> >USE_DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS=off would mean "source FUNCTIONS" (dont use all
> >the default functions)
> >
> >USE_DEFAULT_FUNCTIONS=on would mean "DONT source FUNCTIONS" (use the
> >functions sorcery gives us)
> >
> >So what you're saying is the default value should be "on" (dont source
> >FUNCTIONS).
> >
> > 
> >
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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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