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  • From: Paul <dufflebunk AT dufflebunk.homeip.net>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Re: The story of "Oh, my dependencies"
  • Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 10:06:52 -0400

Have you tried gaze orphans?

On Tue, 2004-18-05 at 16:41 +0000, Mathieu L 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
> >
> > --
> > 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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