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[Dufflebunk <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

A depends_grimoire (or grimoire_depends) would be a better solution.
However, I would suggest making it like:
grimoire_depends SPELL GRIMOIRE_NAME [GRIMOIRE_URL], or
grimoire_depends SPELL [SPELL, ...] GRIMOIRE_NAME [GRIMOIRE_URL]
The grimoire url would be optional and only needed for non-standard
grimoires. If GRIMOIRE_NAME is default, it assumes you mean the grimoire
located in element 0 of the GRIMOIRE_DIR (/etc/sorcery/local/grimoire).

This still means that the grimoires need unique names unless the url (if
provided) were to be check in the grimorie's metadata.

On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 18:15, Martin Ruderer wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 14:58:38 -0700 (PDT)
> "Eric Sandall" <eric AT sandall.us> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Heh, hadn't thought of those.  :)  Yes, perhaps checking if the spell
> > is available first, then requesting to add a grimoire second.  As for
> > devel/test/stable, we could just call those 'default' or some such for
> > these purposes, or we could assume (most likely safely) that one of
> > those(at least) is installed, so we'd never say 'depends
> > default/<spell>'  (I meant to mention that condition before, otherwise
> > we'd have to change every spell's DEPENDS, and that would be a Bad
> > Thing(TM)).
> 
> How about having a command like 
> "grimoire_depends $grimoire $LISTOFSPELLS" in our grimoires for
> inter-grimoire depends? It would install $grimoire if one of the spells
> doesn't exist in currently installed grimoires. That could keep the
> official grimoires consistent and wouldn't affect "user grimoires".
> 
> (Just a short shot)