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

On Tue, 18 May 2004, Mathieu L wrote:

> 
> > 
> 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.
> 


What happens if user casts Y, then casts X (which depends on Y). Now the 
user dispels X and is offered to dispel Y (which they don't want to do). 
This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it may be preferable to have 
sorcery 'know' which spells were installed as dependencies and which were 
explicitly cast. 'gaze orphans' will already list spells which have no 
explicit dependencies. Perhaps adding any spell that is explicitly cast as 
a dependency on some sort of fake spell (i.e. system, local, explicit) 
could solve this problem. Then sorcery would only offer to dispel spells 
that are no longer needed AND were not explicitly installed by the user.

Just an idea.

-casey