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[Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com>]

On Tuesday 18 May 2004 9:48 am, Andrew 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> Yes, its definitly plausible to teach dispel about depends, just no one
> has time to do it.
>
> We can use the compute_installed_depends function to build up hash tables
> of what depends on what, and what is depended on by what, thus making
> it so one can wander up and down the depends tree.
>
> The precondition is that the depends tree is actually valid. There are a
> number of different roads we must take in order to accomplish that. 1)
> clease (done)
> 2) only update depends on successful cast (working on it)
> 3) dispel needs to remove depends on dispel (goes along with the
> suggested changes)
>
> So much code to write, so little time.
>
> -Andrew

I'd be okay with just a message or a query.  (Although, offering to 
automatically dispel (defaulting to 'n') would be a nice addition.)

Thinking about this thread, it occurs to me that there's really two issues 
here:
1)  Spell X depends on spell Y.  Dispelling X offers to dispel Y (or at least 
informs).
2)  Spell X depends on spell Y.  Dispelling Y resists until a --force flag is 
used or X is dispelled (which then moves back to point 1).

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