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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

Eric Sandall wrote:
> Geoffrey Derber said:
>
> > Now that we've had a couple weeks with the new grimoires.  I think it's
> > time to try and tackle some of the problems with multiple grimoires.
> >
> > Mainly, any ideas on how to take care of cross grimoire dependencies?
> >
> > For example xvid in the z-rejected section is an optional dependency for
> > mplayer.
> >
> > Off hand, I don't see any clean way to do it.  Optional dependencies are
> > less of a problem than required dependencies.
> >
> > one method might be to modified the 'depends' command
> >
> > 'depends <spell> [<other_grimoire>]' which would inform the user that
> > another grimoire is needed, download it, install, then continue.
> >
> > Geoff
>
>
> I think that might confuse some packages, as we currently can do 'depends
> <spell> [<configure flags>]'.  A better way (IMHO) would be to have
> '[optional_]depends [grimoire]/<spell> [other flags]', then we just check
> for the '/' character and if it's there, check if <grimoire> is installed,
> if not, ask the user if they want it installed (keep in mind that spells
> can only depend on other spells in the standard grimoires (if the
> dependency is not in the current grimoire) and not on custom grimoires),
> otherwise continue on.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -sandalle
That'd work for the optional depends, but I don't remember any of the 
required depends needing the other flags, but it would probably be 
better to do the same for both.  I was writing it thinking more about 
required than optional.

another option, a '[-gm grimoire]' flag might work as well.

Just throwing out ideas here, figure we can eliminate the bad ones later.

Geoff