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["Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT optimaltec.com>]

> That almost sounds like it's shifting the complex part around a bit. 
> Rather than having multiple simple spells, we would have more complex 
> single spells. 

Not really, I'm suggesting to solve this in sorcery, and the second 
DETAILS would be needed anyway.

> If the spell is set up right, users would not have both the -devel 
> spell and the stable installed, the CONFLICTS file.  I also don't see 
> using requires really messing up the grimoire much.  I think this is a 
> viable option.
>
> In the end though, my main point was to try and give user the option 
> to install the devel version, without forcing it on them. 

Than the first question should be, why current system of 
devel/test/stable grimoires doesn't solve this? Maybe instead of pushing 
from devel to test every week or two, we have to establish some kind of 
a "signal" in a spell as to whether it's ready to go into test/stable? 
And that wouldn't be just a section guru's call, but something like 
"three successful" installs. If sorcery would send back (non-private) 
information that such and such spell has just succeeded installing (or 
group such messages into packages to send all of it at once), our 
"back-end" would push the spell into test after three successful reports?