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  • From: Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Users] menuconfig for casts
  • Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:23:20 +0200

On Thursday 21 December 2006 01:23, Eric Sandall wrote:
<snip>
> We do have defaults, at least for queries, but not optional dependencies
> (though those can be set by using `sorcery default add ...`.
>
> Perhaps another Sorcery feature would be to 'silence' queries/optional
> dependencies which have already been answered. If you enabled this
> option, you wouldn't be asked to continue using xorg to provide X11-LIBS
> *unless* you used -r when casting. Would that work?

I think all pre-answered prompts should be skipped, it shouldn't only be an
option. On the contrary I think an uninterrupted configure && depends phase
should be the norm whenever possible, afterall we do have -r for
reconfiguring.

Maybe if this would become the norm we could then add a refined -r option to
cast that would let the user define what kind of prompts should be re-asked
during cast. That way it wouldn't be an all-or-nothing situation, but instead
you could decide to recast e.g. all your X11-dependent spells and only have
the provider prompts bother you (and in all other cases have them _not_
bother you, unlike now).

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Juuso Alasuutari
[[ Source Mage GNU/Linux ]]




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