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

Hi,

got a question for our sorcery hackers:
Why does installwatch get loaded before BUILD is executed and not in
prepare_install?

This makes sorcery track directories that didn't get installed by the
spell at all.
e.g. with gather_docs now putting stuff in /usr/share/doc instead of
/usr/doc, /usr/doc still gets tracked by _every_ spell, because it used
to put stuff in /usr/doc which got removed when dispelling it, making
installwatch think /usr/doc changed.

installwatch running all the time during BUILD is also the cause for
some spell failures (see bug #3846 for an example).

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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