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[Jaka Kranjc <smgl AT lynxlynx.info>]

On Thursday 04 of August 2011 21:25:40 flux wrote:
> I would like to see this as well, but as an option (and as the default
> of that option). Ideally sorcery should support bare staging (chucking
> the whole install into a plain temp directory without using a fuse
> filesystem), staging with castfs (or unionfs -- what's happening with
> this one?), or doing no staging at all (our current default). Either
> way, what we have now isn't real staging, since it only stages BUILD,
> not INSTALL (or perhaps even FINAL, depending on what a given spell is
> doing in FINAL). Then rather than STAGING being only on or off, it could
> have specific values (plain, casts, none/off, etc.), and it could always
> grow more options if more were needed.
Actually INSTALL *is* staged and BUILD isn't. There wouldn't be much point in 
the reverse. Staging was introduced to avoid failed installs breaking the 
real 
system — now they just don't get merged out of the stage.

LP
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