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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Friday 26 March 2004 3:09 am, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2004 at 08:21:09AM +0100, Ladislav Hagara wrote:
> > > > > I don't see a problem with creating a plugins section, such as
> > > > > x11-pluggins (as video-plugins, etc.). Anyone else?
> > > >
> > > > See
> > > > https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/sm-users/2004-March/000629.html
> > >
> > > Should this be made an official SMGL grimoire, or should it just be a
> > > section?
> >
> > I vote for section. No next grimoire.
> > And better, if it is possible, only one gkrellm spell with all its
> > plugins and DIALOG interface to choose some of them.
>
> The problem i see with having only one spell is we need some way to make
> sure only newly chosen plugins get compiled, i don't want to recompile
> gkrellm + 20 plugins just to get one new plugin installed.
> I think having seperate spells for the plugins is better, maybe with a
> profile gkrellm-plugins that optional_depends on all of them.
>
> I don't think these spells warrant creating a whole new grimoire, a new
> section gkrellm would be nice though.

Both options are possible.  A dialog based script could be created as a 
PREPARE file (don't forget to allow for automatic updates), and it could 
create a new DEPENDS based on user input, which would depend, rather than 
optionally depend, on the user's choice of plug-ins.

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