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[evraire AT tuwg.com]

> more work, sorcery shouldn't record those changes in
> /var/state/sorcery/depends unless the user says yes when asked if he
> really wants to cast the spells.

What happens if the user isn't aware that Spell B required Spell A to be 
recompiled with a different optional depends, or forgot about it.  I know I 
would be likely to forget about it if I originally said no to it.  Now let's 
say a new version of spell A is out, so I cast it... when it optionally asks 
me for that particular depends, you're saying it would default to my "no"?  
If I don't remember that spell B requires this dependency, won't I break 
spell B by saying "no" again?

  I think that it /should/ modify the depends, or at least the user should be 
alerted that some other currently intalled spell presently depends on this 
option being set.  And what if I do unattended upgrades?  I seem to recall 
that being one of the goals for the stable grimoire... in that case, the 
optional depends definitely needs to default to "yes".

  Just a thought!

  Jonathan Evraire
  evraire at tuwg.com


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