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[Seth Woolley <seth AT tautology.org>]

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Heh, I shouldn't have sent that last email out before checking for new
messages, but I just want to clarify that we shouldn't stick to element
zero.  We should do the full cascading process... I might have a custom
grimoire in element zero.

Seth

On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Dufflebunk wrote:

> 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)
>
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