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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Thursday 10 July 2003 03:02 pm, Geoffrey Derber wrote:
>
> Well, like I said in another email, I'm just trying to get the ideas
> flowing.  We can eliminate the bad ideas later, but for now, I'd like to
> get ideas down so we can begin to take care of the problem.
>
> We'd still need a way to specify the suggested grimoire needed, which
> this would still do.  Would we really want to prompt to see if they want
> to download the alternate grimoire.  Maybe if it was an optional
> depends, but for a required depends I think we should just download the
> thing.
>
> Geoff
>


I respectfully disagree.  I do sometimes kill a cast when I see a depends, 
required or not, that I'm not ready to install.  I think I would want to know 
that a spell was going to install a grimoire and give me the option of 
bailing out if I chose to.


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