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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
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> We can have the general defaults be:
>
> 1. Never Restart
> 2. Don't Restart unless spell hints restart is safe <-- default
> 3. Restart unless spell hints restart is unsafe
> 4. Always Restart
>
> Hint policy: if it breaks both on restarting and not restarting, default
> to not restart.
>
> init scripts could have:
> UPGRADE_SAFE="yes" to hint that restarting is ok (won't restart under option 
> 1)
> UPGRADE_SAFE="no" to hint restarting is not ok (will restart under option 4)
> UPGRADE_SAFE undefined hints that restarting is going to be assumed to be not 
> ok under option 2 (default), ok under option 3.
>
> Of course per-spell/during-configure selection would override this behavior.
>
> I assume that takes care of most anybody's concerns (besides it being
> "more work"/"too much choice").

I'm assuming there'll be another Sorcery menu for choosing which
default the user wants?

How can we define 'safe'? Shall we assume that the user has been
keeping up-to-date with all the prior updates so we only need to worry
about when ++VERSION changes config file formats and not worry if user
is on VERSION-{a couple of revisions or a major release}?

- -sandalle

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