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David R. Morrison wrote: | 1. I've made a modification to the new UseBinaryDist stuff, introducing | a flag "--compile-from-source" in addition to the flag | "--use-binary-dist". My new flag will disable the use of the binary | distribution for that run only. | | There have been some objections about the name of my new flag. Some | alternative suggestions: "--dont-use-binary-dist" and | "--no-use-binary-dist". Any opinions? Can we somehow reach a quick | consensus about this? This needs to appear in a fink release quite soon, | in order to fix problems with bootstrapping fink. | - --source-run or --binary-off , just because I HATE typing long command line switches.
| 2. There is also a question about what the default value should be for | the global UseBinaryDist option. At the moment, any user who runs "fink | --configure" and who hasn't previously made a choice about UseBinaryDist | will be asked a new question about whether to use it, with the default | answer being "Yes." What worries me about this is that a user might not | notice this question, and just select the default answer (along with a | bunch of other defaults that are agreeing with previous choices). Then, | all of a sudden, the behavior of fink will change in a dramatic way!
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