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This page gives in-depth information about the various selectable freatures you can select for Sorcery to use.
The menu can be accessed via going to Option → Feature Menu after invoking sorcery command.
| Feature | Default | Information |
|---|---|---|
| archive | on | Archive all installed components of a spell so that if you decide to dispel the spell it can easily be recovered and ressurrected |
| autofix | on | Has sorcery check for broken spells and fix them after sorcery update |
| updatefix | off | Ensure basesystem is not broken before sorcery update |
| autoprune | off | Automatically remove old sources and installs cached sources upon sorcery update |
| ccache | off | Cache (using ccache) the initial compilation of a spell so that upgrading the spell later on will be much faster |
| color | on | When selected, cast and dispel show colored messages |
| config_loc | on | Locally customize spell configuration (e.g. Do you wish to add "--" options to ./configure? [n]) |
| gather_docs | on | Automatically gather miscellaneous documentation from spells |
| mail_reports | off | Email reports to address specified via sorcery → Option → Email of Sorcerer |
| preserve | on | Preserve modified files or back them up and overwrite with defaults |
| sustain | on | Disallow dispelling of spells that would cause terrible malfunctions (according to /var/lib/sorcery/sustained) |
| tmpfs | off | Attempt to compile entirely in RAM |
| view_reports | off | Prompt to view a report of the compilation |
| voyeur | on | View compilation as it happens |
| reap | on | Remove files installed by a spell when dispelling |
| store_conf_log | off | Store configuration log file config.log (usually used by ./configure script) |
| net_select | off | Use netselect to try fastest mirrors first if "netselect" spell is installed |
| clean_source | off | Clean up source directories after failures |
| cross_install | off | Non-native installation/cross-compilation |
| set_term_title | off | Set xterm title/screen window title on cast |
| screen | off | Toggle usage of screen in cast |
| per_spell_cflags | off | Ask for custom CFLAGS for each spell |
| show_gaze_short_query | on | Show spell description option in queries for optional dependencies |