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[Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 2:02 AM, lynx AT codemages.net <lynx AT codemages.net> 
wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2014 20:58:44 +0200 Thomas Orgis <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> 
> wrote
>
>> Am Sat, 13 Sep 2014 15:04:35 -0300
>> schrieb Ismael Luceno <ismael.luceno AT gmail.com>:
>>
>> > We might be able to reduce base system breakage to a minimum by
>> > carefully choosing which spells we depend upon, e.g. bash and gawk had
>> > break badly in the past.
>>
>> Switching to different tools/libraries is a separate matter from
>> keeping the basic sorcery operation alive, IMHO. Tucking away a tree of
>> static tools to be used by sorcery independent of the normal casts that
>> would help regardless of using mawk or gawk. I'm not saying that
>> alternatives shouldn't be explored, just that I feel that this can
>> easily result in other yet unknown issues.
> Btw, unless someone removed that part, bash is always also compiled into a
> static bin/bash.static for any emergencies.

Oh my... I didn't notice it, cool, less work to do.