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[Sukneet Basuta <sukneet AT gmail.com>]

On 5 Oct 2015 15:02, "Thomas Orgis" <thomas-forum AT orgis.org> wrote:
>
> Am Sat, 3 Oct 2015 04:18:29 -0500
> schrieb Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>:
>
> > On Sep 29, Ismael Luceno [ismael.luceno AT gmail.com] wrote:
>
> > > Also, although less important, most are unhappy about having to
> > > configure every minute detail the first time (this is something we
> > > could easily solve, without compromising our goals),
> >
> > I don't see how, given how integral "we promise to install upstream
> > defauts, unless you tell us otherwise" is to who we are. It's nearly the
> > entire point.
>
> I want to hook in here: I dream of a SMGL install/rebuild/update that I
> can start and actually expect it to finish unattended. I don't want
> things to be carefully tuned and preconfigured, all I want is that I'm
> not _forced_ to reconfigure everything to have a working system at all.
>
> I think it should be a valid way to do a SMGL install to do it with
> PROMPT_DELAY=0. and only `cast -r` stuff that one cares about. Of
> course, part of this is handling of cyclic dependencies.

I think Jeremy is saying that is a valid way, and doing that should just install upstream's defaults.

The problem is lots of spells fail if you do that--or at least they do in my experience. That's actually why I initially started contributing to Source Mage.