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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: geom 'taste' vs. manual creation ?
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geom(4) says:

   A geom which came into being as a result of a normal taste operation
   should self-destruct...

Now I wonder:
does the GEOM infrastructure record whether a geom has been created
by a 'taste' call, or manually through a 'geom xxx create ..', or
this info should be managed directly by the individual implementation ?

	cheers
	luigi