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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>:
> If it is removed, there are going to be references to RPM stuff in the
> sorcery scripts without the programs existing. This inherently decreases
> the stability of the scripts as they now have to rely on spells having
> the correct dependencies or the scripts will start doing weird things.
> It would be sufficient, I think, to have a check for the rpmunpack and
> cpio binaries before they used in the unpack stuff.

That'd certainly make it safer if I were to go through with this. Andrew?
Others? Can we fix up Sorcery so it doesn't die a horrible death if it's
missing binaries (at least rpmunpack and cpio, for now).

BTW, cpio is only used in conjunction with rpmunpack from what I can see. Can
anyone see otherwise?

-sandalle

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