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[Jackson Alley <jalley AT toomanymirrors.homelinux.com>]

On Tue, 18 May 2004 16:41:42 +0000
"Mathieu L" <lejatorn AT linuxmail.org> 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
> > 
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> > 
> 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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In order for dispel to really be able to do something like that we will need 
the full DEPENDS tree, which, to the best of my knoladge is incomplete. If 
some one is working on this correct me and I'd love to see where it's at. 
Thoughts? Ideas? Corrections?
jackson
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