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[Belxjander Serechai <belxjander_serechai AT yahoo.co.nz>]

I agree...

for those users who dont use the spell...

I also advovate changing
  "depends linux" from to "optional_depends LINUX"

like how several X spells provide "X" services within sorcery
  why not make spells optional when they may be skipped within sorcery
  and actually allow for externally made

On Fri, 2005-28-10 at 11:55 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
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> > However it's done, we could use something like this.  It would make things
> > like xen easier to deal with.  It would also help with the spells that
> > build kernel modules... we've been changing those to use sorcery functions
> > to find the last built version of the kernel to figure out what tree to
> > build against.  I know it has fallback if the linux spell isn't there, but
> > if someone has left the linux spell installed and just done their own
> > kernels past that I imagine it gets confused.  It would be nice if those
> > advanced/custom kernels could still get themselves "registered" with
> > sorcery.
> 
> IMO, if the user wants to build the kernel outside of a spell then
> they need to not use the linux spell at all (or use it for initial
> setup, then remove it so it is no longer registered.
> 
> As David mentioned, the linux spell is there for convenience and it is
> not meant (nor should it) to do everything.
> 
> - -sandalle
> 
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