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The problem with doing it that way is what about spells in z-rejected
(for example) which depend on a spell in devel or test or stable? Only
one could be put there. Or what if someone has a newer version of a
spell in their personal grimoire, would cast ignore that version if
another grimoire was specified? What if people start publishing their
own grimoires of personal spells and naming becomes a problem?

That sounds more negative that I meant it to. The idea is a good one. I
looked into doing something like that a little while ago, but ran into
the problems I mentioned above. The only way around them is to first see
if there's a spell, then if not, tell the user the suggested grimoire is
needed (and prompt for a scribe add perhaps),  but that seems kludgy to
me :/

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 15:10, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
> 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
> 
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