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  • From: "Mathieu L" <lejatorn AT linuxmail.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [SM-Discuss] Re: The story of "Oh, my dependencies"
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 16:41:42 +0000


> > 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
>
> --
> Arwed v. Merkatz Source Mage GNU/Linux
> developer
>
> http://www.sourcemage.org
>
In the same kind of idea is it planned (is it at least feasable?) to do
something like:
I want to cast X.
Y is also casted because X depends on Y.
I don't want X anymore so I dispell it.
-->dispel offers me to dispell Y as well because it's no longer needed by any
spell.

I would find this useful because it often happens that I cast something which
depends on a lot of other stuff just to see if I like it; but I usually
dispel it afterwards and since I don't want my system to be bloated by lots
of unused stuff, I have to dispell one by one all the previous dependencies.

/Lejatorn.
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