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[Rohan Nicholls <rohan.nicholls AT pareto.nl>]

I have been reading the docs quite a bit lately, and there are warnings
about stopping sorcery or cast in the middle of what it is doing, but
nothing about if there is a way to safely stop it.

This came about when I did the full rebuild, and was running out of time
before I had to go home and it was happily still chugging along. 
Fortunately it stopped in time for me to get home, but it got me to
thinking....

I understand that killing the process while compiling is a bad idea, but
does it mess up the queue or internal housekeeping to stop cast when it
is asking you questions?  ie. before it starts installing a new
package.  And if it does would it be possible to add an option to allow
a user to pause its execution, have it save its current state to be
continued later?

Just something I came across in my explorations.  Very nice system you
have built here everyone, the dependency handling is amazing.

Thanks,

Rohan