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

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 10:46:59PM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Andrew recently highlighted a problem in current grub spell [0]. The
> user is prompted in FINAL to determine if he wants or not to
> edit /boot/grub/menu.lst
> First thing, it should not be done in FINAL. But that's not why I bring
> this bug to you.
> The problem is that the prompt is made with a config_query. Andrew
> argued that this is really annoying because one doesn't want to store
> this setting. If one wants to edit it one time, and then do not edit,
> the user has to cast -r -c, which is quite long especially with this
> spell ;-)
> A simple query would solve the problem, and that is what is was done
> primarily. But I recently changed that according to our holy roadmap ;-)
> [1] where it is said that :
> 
> "All spells use config_query instead of query and/or read"
> 
> So, can I make a exception for this stuff or not ??
> 
> Any thoughts ?? :-)
> 
> [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8404
> [1] http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=SourceMageRoadMap

Definitely use query for this, not config_query. config_query is meant
for questions that _configure_ the spell, not for every random question.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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