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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Hamish Greig wrote:

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> A second method, which I haven't thought through at all, would be 
> for /var/state/sorcery/depends to only be changed after a successful cast, 
> and for individual spells depends to be listed 
> in /etc/sorcery/local/depends/$spell (and SPELL_CONFIG moved 
> to /etc/sorcery/local/configs/*).
>  I am not sure that this second method would be as beneficial to resurrect  
> and binary installs (from ISO or network installs)  so maybe a combination 
> of 
> the two would be most useful.

I think the second method would work just as well. The depends info could
easily be extracted (since it is just a file in the cached archive). It
could then be excluded when extracting the cache (i.e.  resurrect), or
sorcery could just let it install the file instead of creating it itself.  
I think using /var/state/sorcery/depends/$spell would be better than /etc,
since it is state information for the spell. The current flat depends file
could then be rebuilt from /var/state/sorcery/depends/* sort of like the
codex.index files are built. This has the slight advantage over the first
method by not dirtying the .tar.bz2 with trailing garbage (though
tar/bzip2 don't seem to mind).

-casey