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[Derek Moyes <sorcerer AT flamesnyper.com>]

Quoting Eric Schabell <eschabell AT sourcemage.org>:

> On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:34:05AM +0200, Jaanus Heeringson wrote:
> > 3. A lot of the intermediate users are very tired of choise. They simply 
> > don't want to research at every corner to install the appropriate stuff 
> > (which MTA, DNS etc) and are asking for a "preferred setup". This maby 
> > don't concern us yet, but it might in the future.
> > 
> A basic right we have always tried to keep in Source Mage is that it is
> about choice. Whenever we were confronted with a point in development
> (spell creation, sorcery defaults) we tried to make the choice be set by
> the admin installing our distro. Of course we have some profile spells,
> but they are minimal and I hope they stay that way.

I think the best thing we can do (for new Linux or SMGL users) is to set
sensible defaults using the DEPENDS vs. OPTIONAL DEPENDS in our spell writing.

 -- Derek, sorcerer AT flamesnyper.com