Discussion of Sorcery related topics

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>:
> Forgot to list these spells. This is the list from stable that references 
> SOURCE_DIRECTORY in POST_INSTALL:
> 
> epsutil
> gcc
> gcc2
> glibc
> magicfilter2
> openoffice
> speedtouch
> texinfo
> xdirectfb
> xfree86
> xfree86-devel
> xfree86-libs
> 
> 
> Most of these only reference $SOURCE_DIRECTORY to remove it. The only two 
> exceptions are speedtouch and texinfo. speedtouch offers to view the howto 
> from SOURCE_DIRECTORY, however it should be available in 
> /usr/share/doc/speedtouch (at least the POST_INSTALL says so if the user 
> opts not to view it then). texinfo uses the SOURCE_DIRECTORY to store some 
> temporary files for generating a list of info files, this could easily be 
> done in /tmp.

I believe that all files a spell needs to create temporarily should reside in
$SOURCE_DIRECTORY only, otherwise people cannot cleanly remove a failed 
compile
by just removing $SOURCE_DIRECTORY. Correct me if you think this idea is bad.
;)

-sandalle

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