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- From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
- To: sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Subject: Re: [SM-Users] menuconfig for casts
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:39:33 -0600
On Jan 24, Juuso Alasuutari [iuso AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> On Wednesday 24 January 2007 23:30, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> <lotsa snipping>
> > > Please frame this discussion within the context that PREPARE,
> > > CONFIGURE and DEPENDS may only be executed *once*, and may not be
> > > parsed. You absolutely can not run them more than once, you can not
> > > make any assumptions about what they do, what the code looks like,
> > > none of that. You may only assume that when the files want to ask
> > > the user a question, control eventually ends up in a grimoire/sorcery
> > > function. Within that function you do not and can not know the answers
> > > to subsequent unasked/unanswered questions.
> >
> > But you can know the answer to previously answered questions for the same
> > spell, correct? Is there a particular reason we have the 'continue to use
> > <provider x>' question when -r wasn't used? As noted init.d is the other
> > place that happens but that's the grimoire's problem now.
>
> It's not the grimoires' problem just yet, is it? I've understood that
> moving
> init.d stuff into grimoires is still pending. I'll be among the first to
> make
> sure init.d queries aren't repeated like they are now when the change
> happens. :)
"now" as in "not going to be sorcery's".
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Re: [SM-Users] menuconfig for casts,
Jeremy Blosser, 01/24/2007
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Re: [SM-Users] menuconfig for casts,
Juuso Alasuutari, 01/24/2007
- Re: [SM-Users] menuconfig for casts, Jeremy Blosser, 01/24/2007
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Re: [SM-Users] menuconfig for casts,
Juuso Alasuutari, 01/24/2007
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