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["Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us>]

Here's an old horse.  :)  We need to be able to have our spells depend on
versions (i.e. <=, ==, >=, !=, etc.), and not just on the spell.  This
will add quite the complexity to sorcery, but it is apparent that it will
help things along.

Here is one reason:  http://kerneltrap.org/node.php?id=422

May also help with certain spells requiring certain versions (i.e. no more
USEGCC2 required, just have "depends gcc < 3.0" in your DEPENDS file).

Gentoo uses this fairly well, and I believe that if we want to keep going
much further, we will need some way to implement this, and to have
multiple versions installed.

Ideas,comments?

-One of Four
a.k.a. sandalle

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