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

On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 11:04:01PM +0100, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> 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.
> 

Is this policy documented in the guru handbook? If not it probably should
be to avoid future confusion.

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