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[Seth Woolley <swoolley AT panasas.com>]

To clarify,

Andrew brought it to my attention that this thread has gone a bit 
further than managable.  My idea doesn't extend beyond the innards of 
single CONFIGURE and DEPENDS files as they are being processed. 
Ultimately it's important mostly for CONFIGURE, so if it goes anywhere 
it should be tried there first, DEPENDS processing is a lot more 
complicated than most people realize.  Any attempt to make this go 
beyong using dialog within a single CONFIGURE file should be moderated 
with an understanding of the system it's being proposed for.  For 
example, it's not realistic to atomize an interface across multiple 
CONFIGURE files or multiple DEPENDS files or even within the same spell 
touching both CONFIGURE and DEPENDS at this point.  There's too much to 
base in later stages on the results earlier stages to make it 
unrealistically broad (computing power being a major limit, given the 
resources of bash).

Seth

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