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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 12:23:43PM -0700, David Braaten wrote:
> 
> > The only non-developer impact with this is that
> > there is a LOCAL_EXCLUDED
> > file that allows users to exclude things on their
> > own. Im not sure how
> > widely used it is since its never been actively
> > advertised. Also the
> > only consequence is that more stuff will be excluded
> > than usual
> > since the regexps wont be anchored by ^ and $. That
> > means silly short
> > 
> 
> I see that we could use something like LOCAL_EXCLUDED
> for spells that overwrite or behave badly and create
> extra files that get tracked.
> It would be handy to have a spell file with these
> regexps to list files that should be removed from the
> install and md5 logs for that spell, after the install
> step.
> See this bug for instance:
> http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7494
> 
Please see the follow on discussion where the idea of having
per-spell excluded/protected files came up. I believe this is
a better solution than using LOCAL_EXCLUDED. This will
be part of the "installed grimoire".

-Andrew

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