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[Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>]

This is trickier that it looks at first. You don't want to remove any of
the dependencies listed in the depends file until after DEPENDS is done
running. If you remove them first (which is done by cast -r), it forgets
the past choices.

Or am I thinking of something else?

On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 13:20, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 09:52:50 -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Quoting Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> > > So to rid a box of gettext i just need to dispel it and do a
> > > rebuild? I'll try to get that going on a box this week.
> > 
> > I believe Sorcery doesn't yet correctly handle removal of optional
> > dependencies, so when a package is recast with `sorcery rebuild` that
> > had a dependency on gettext, it may try to resurrect/recast gettext,
> > if I'm remembering correctly.
> 
> Should be easy to fix. A variation of the patch I sent earlier today
> should do it.
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