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

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 06:35:21PM +0200, Stephan Erb wrote:
> What do you think about the option of installing binarys?
> 
> The focus could be still on the source-spells but the spells which are
> cast by prometheus could be available via a special grimoire directly.
> 
> It shouldn't matter whether I use firefox or firefox-bin anymore. I
> would appreciate this feature.

Sorcery has a binary feature, its called resurrect, been around since
the begining. It does need improvement in several areas however.

Be careful though, you're mixing ideas. 'firefox' is the source spell,
'firefox-bin' installs a precompiled upstream binary, but also a spell
(just with no compilation step). When you cast a spell, a cache tarball
is made of the installation base, which may be resurrected at a later
date if the current spell version hasnt changed. The idea of using
prometheus to generate cache tarballs for everyone has been brought
up before.

-Andrew


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