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  • From: "Jeremy Blosser (emrys)" <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] "suggested_depends" . . .
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:43:23 -0500

On Sep 27, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 10:52:54PM -0700, Jason Flatt wrote:
> > On Monday 26 September 2005 08:33 am, Andrew wrote:
> > >
> > > We could have a "suggested_depends" command supplied by sorcery that
> > > would merely add a spell to the list of spells to cast without incurring
> > > any actual dependency ordering. The question would only get asked if
> > > the spell wasnt already installed.
> > >
> > > In this case:
> > > espgs depends on cups
> > > cups has a suggested depends on espgs (for postscript printing)
> > >
> > > Just an idea.
> > >
> > > -Andrew
> >
> > Well, I certainly am not going to suggest potentially unnecessary code
> > for you
> > to write, :^) but there are probably many instances where something
> > like
> > that might be handy. As an example, in working on the Asterisk spells,
> > there
> > are a couple of add-on spells that optionally depend on the main asterisk
> > spell. If you don't know about them, however, you're not likely to cast
> > them. Making them optional_depends on asterisk wouldn't work, but making
> > them "suggested_depends" of asterisk would at least bring them up during
> > the
> > cast of asterisk.
>
> This is a very useful feature, I think, but if it's not affecting
> ordering and is more of a suggestion, I'm not sure it should be
> considered a dependency.
>
> Perhaps it should be called a symbiont and be put in a SYMBIONTS file,
>
> Or friend or amicus/amici or mutual_with or simply uses or related_to,

How about just 'suggest espgs', possibly in a SUGGESTED file.

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