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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] The story of "Oh, my dependencies"
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:22:21 -0700

Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:57:00AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > We should probably discuss possible solutions to Bug #5957[0]. ;)
> >
> > -sandalle
> >
> > [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5957
>
> 1. indirect dependencies should be relied on, otherwise every single
> gnome program would have a list of 30+ dependencies, which just isn't
> manageable. (I thought we agreed on that before, otherwise we're
> missing about a thousand dependencies on X11-LIBS ;)
> 2. having dispel refuse to dispel spells that others depend on sounds
> like a good solution, with a switch --force to override that
> behaviour

Yes, we had agreed on that, but then we still run into these problems as
above,
so I thought I'd bring it up again so we can get a complete solution in. :)

-sandalle

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