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http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13544

           Summary: need user prompt if STAGED_INSTALL=off is ok
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Untargetted future release
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P2
         Component: Cast
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org


(I'm starting this with sorcery for now because of the issue of the default
answer to the query, but we may decide it's just a grimoire thing.  I also 
don'
think we have to solve this for 1.14.x since it's not technically a 
regression.)

Since some major spells have issues using staged install, we should really 
give
users a way to indicate if automatically turning staging off is ok, or if they
need to get and accept a warning first.

Obviously to get the spell installed they will have to allow it to go in 
without
staging at some point, I just want to avoid the scenario where someone gets a
broken glibc all over their production system and didn't realize it wasn't 
using
staging in the first place.  A query makes this their problem to plan, not 
ours.

There are two parts to this:

1) They should get asked per spell, but the response should probably get
remembered, since this is basically "sign the disclaimer once", not "are you
really sure" every time.  But if we want to get complicated we could make the
options "(yes|no)(this time|every time)".

2) Ideally they should be able to set if the default response somewhere.

We could accomplish #1 by just making a grimoire function that notices in
CONFIGURE if STAGED_INSTALL is off and does a config_query accordingly.  
However
this doesn't give the user a way to set a default answer, and opinions on what
default is appropriate are probably going to vary a lot depending on the type 
of
user and type of system.  Fewer people will want to default to "never without 
my
persmission" but they are going to be the ones that risk the most if a
non-staged cast breaks on them.

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