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2009/3/21 Marius N=C3=BCnnerich <marius@nuenneri.ch>:

> Take a look at geom_nop, it doesn't taste. It is like a proxy already
> as far as I can see. I don't know what to do about the naming though.

Maybe I expressed it wrongly  - what I meant to say is that existing
"normal" GEOM classes, even if they are proxy-like in nature (like
GELI) cannot simply "be used" as a proxy in this context.