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["Andrew \"ruskie\" Levstik" <ruskie AT mages.ath.cx>]

When this poped up on irc this is what I recommended:
A verbosioty level settable in the FEATURE MENU and
on the command line: 

-v0 by default only asks questions(light)
-v1 shows some more data(only shows the 
    dependencie resolving but not the "No work to do" or so stuff)(medium)
-v2 a bit more(like it does atm)(high)
-v3 should be debug level(would simply enable debug level so not muchchanges 
here as well)
-v4 should be superdebug level(should simply set superdebug on so nothing 
would be changed here)

For this to work the following would have to be modified:

the real_message function to accept a "VERBOSITY" parameter
so that it could be compared to the preset level(either in FEATURE MENU or 
via -v# flags

and then of course all the calls to message function to have the VERBOSITY 
parameter
the message modification I propose like this:

1. first parse all the message lines out of current sorcery code with 
filenames(grep -r "message" *)
2. take this list and modify each of the message lines for it to the proper 
verbosity level
3. run a sed script over this that will switch all the necesary stuff around
4. do the same for all the grimoires

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