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  31         The details follow later, but basically policies can be set by either:
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  35             Defining some macros that change the default behaviour: <span class="bold"><strong>this
  36             is the recommended method for setting installation-wide policies</strong></span>.
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  39             By instantiating a distribution object with an explicit policy: this
  40             is mainly reserved for ad hoc policy changes.
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  43             By passing a policy to a special function as an optional final argument:
  44             this is mainly reserved for ad hoc policy changes.
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  47             By using some helper macros to define a set of functions or distributions
  48             in the current namespace that use a specific policy: <span class="bold"><strong>this
  49             is the recommended method for setting policies on a project- or translation-unit-wide
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  54         The following sections introduce these methods in more detail.
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