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diff --git a/specs/glider-spec.txt b/specs/glider-spec.txt index 9683079..5576887 100644 --- a/specs/glider-spec.txt +++ b/specs/glider-spec.txt @@ -119,8 +119,10 @@ - Now Glider has a set of packages to install. The format of these packages will be platform-dependent: they could be pkg files on OSX, MSI files on Win32, RPMs or DEBs on Linux, and - so on. Glider should query the user for permission to start, - then install the packages. + so on. Glider should query the user for permission to start + installing packages, then install the packages. (All other + steps should generally happen automatically, in the + background, without needing user intervention.) 1.1. The repository @@ -574,7 +576,7 @@ 5. Parameter setting and corner cases. -5.1. Timing: +5.1. Timing The timestamp file SHOULD be regenerated every 15 minutes. Mirrors SHOULD attempt to update every hour. Clients SHOULD accept a @@ -622,6 +624,11 @@ F.3. Support for more download methods Ozymandns, chunked downloads, and bittorrent would all be neat ideas. +F.4. Support for bogus clocks. + + Glider should have a user configurable "no, my clock is _supposed_ + to be wrong" mode, since lots of users seem to _like_ having their + clocks in 1970 forever. R. Ideas I'm rejecting for the moment |