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[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57 AT fastmail.fm>]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 14:16:08 +0100
Jaka Kranjc <lynx AT mages.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Monday 07 of January 2008 13:55:16 Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> > > * Ethan: comes up more often than you might think?? Do you have
> > > any proof?
> >
> > No I don't, unfortunately. I do remember it coming up several times
> > in a couple of weeks, but can't recall the spells. I suppose xfce
> > was involved at least one of the times. I remember one of the
> > things I was trying to do when it came up was related to regulating
> > the sorcery-generated install queue, and I ended up not being able
> > to make a certain script because of it. An option to only return
> > spell versions would be enough for that.
> No proof. I'll fetch it myself then and hopefully prove the opposite.
> 
>  $ gaze -q grimoire | sed 's,SECTION: ,,' | sort | uniq -d -c # easy
> huh :) 130
>       2 compiz-fusion
>       2 graphics-libs
>       2 ieee80211
>       2 jasper
>       2 libungif
>       2 mpg123
>       2 opera
>       2 xfce
>       2 xpenguins
>       2 xpenguins-applet
>       2 xpenguins_themes
>       2 xtrlock
> 
> After removing the
> spells that I have in my local grimoire: xtrlock, opera, libungif
> sections that I have in my local grimoire: graphics-libs
> 
> These are left:
>       2 compiz-fusion
>       2 ieee80211
>       2 jasper
>       2 mpg123
>       2 xfce
>       2 xpenguins
>       2 xpenguins-applet
>       2 xpenguins_themes
> 
> Now I'm pretty sure ieee80211 is not a section, perhaps there are two
> spells? Yes, it is in test/kernels and z-rejected/z-kernels. The same
> applies to mpg123 and jasper.
> The xpenguins* spells were moved recently from games.
> All of this should be noted and fixed.
> 
> We are left with only xfce and compiz-fusion, which really are
> sections too. So you are rebuked, there are only two such spells.

Even one such spell is enough to break scripted usage of gaze version, unless 
an option is available to restrict it to just spells or just sections.