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           Summary: Sorcery 1.13.7 and PROMPT_DELAY=0 do not remember your
                    answers
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: 1.13.x
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Cast
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: sandalle AT sourcemage.org


Tested with:

# sorcery -v
1.13.7
1.13.8-rc4

Sorcery 20080203 does not exhibit this behaviour.

I've noticed that when I set PROMPT_DELAY=0 and do a `sorcery rebuild` it 
fails
because it cannot install sorcery-sound-ferris. I have *never* selected *any* 
of
the sorcery-sound-* packages on this system, so why is it doing so now?

Quick test:

PROMPT_DELAY=30
# cast -r basesystem
Select what I want
...
Collating dependencies...
Spells are to be cast:
---------------------------
basesystem

Do you want to cast these spells? [y]

PROMPT_DELAY=0
# cast -c basesystem
...
All of my above options (e.g vim for TEXT-EDITOR) are remembered:
basesystem requires some TEXT-EDITOR.
Continue to use vim? [y]
...
Collating dependencies...
Spells are to be cast:
---------------------------
basesystem

Do you want to cast these spells? [y]

# cast -c basesystem
...
Run it again just to make sure, same as above

# cast -r basesystem
...
basesystem depends on tar
basesystem requires some TEXT-EDITOR.
        (0)     diakonos
        (1)     e3
        (2)     elvis
        (3)     emacs    (installed)
        (4)     joe
        (5)     moe
        (6)     nano     (installed)
        (7)     pico
        (8)     vim      (installed)
        (9)     zile

Which one do you want? [3]

I had previously selected vim (8)
...
Collating dependencies...
Spells are to be cast:
---------------------------
basesystem                      diakonos        ruby

Do you want to cast these spells? [y]

So...how did diakonos (0) get selected for TEXT-EDITOR when I had previously
selected vim (8) for the first run while the last run said it was going to use
emacs (3). And now, when I set PROMPT_DELAY=30 again and do a `cast -r
basesystem`, the example for TEXT-EDITOR is now:
basesystem has a dependency on some TEXT-EDITOR.
        (0)     diakonos
        (1)     e3
        (2)     elvis
        (3)     emacs    (installed)
        (4)     joe
        (5)     moe
        (6)     nano     (installed)
        (7)     pico
        (8)     vim      (installed)
        (9)     zile

Which one do you want? [3] 8

So it's back to selecting the first installed.

but some of them change:
basesystem has an optional dependency on some BOOTLOADER (for a system boot 
loader).
        (0)     [none]
        (1)     aboot
        (2)     grub     (installed)
        (3)     lilo
        (4)     silo
        (5)     yaboot

Which one do you want? [0]

Before it had always been grub (2), even with the -r and PROMPT_DELAY=0.

I am unsure if `cast -r` is reproducing the same bug as `sorcery rebuild` and 
I
am afraid it is not, since sorcery-sound-ferris is not, somehow, being 
selected.

Would you like a DEBUG and/or SUPER_DEBUG log of the `sorcery rebuild` doing
this? Prefer I use git-bisect to see where it was introduced?

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