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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>:
> Another possibility (just throwing out ideas here), is that each archive 
> type (bzip2, gzip, rpm, compress, zip, etc) could be handled similar to 
> how urls are handled (i.e. /var/lib/sorcery/modules/archive_handlers/*). 
> The archive_bz2 and archive_gz handlers could be included in sorcery, and 
> the archive_rpm, archive_zip, etc. would be installed by the relevant 
> spells.
> 
> The disadvantage (which is pretty big), is that the parts of the sorcery 
> code would be sort of disconnected from the sorcery package. Not sure if 
> this is a good idea. However, once written, I don't see the archive 
> handlers changing very much.
> 
> Not really sure if I like this idea myself...

That could work, but I'm not sure we should be taking that out of Sorcery,
though it might make it easier to add new archive tools (say nzip9?) in the
future.

-sandalle

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