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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

Thank you so very very much, Andrew!  

Truly innovative.

On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 08:02:09PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> This is also just a heads up to devel users...as well as my best attempt
> at sanding down those loose edges right now.
> 
> If you wait a few hours for the tarball to rebuild and are feeling brave,
> devel sorcery has a number of re-workings of the depends algorithms I've
> been working on recently. Cast should do a better job at cleaning up
> old/stale depends and not letting incorrect ones get into the state files.
> 
> Also the dependency dropping/cast crapping out might be solved by a
> default rule I'm adding. I dont know what that will do to full depends
> ordering, the rule is at the end so it should only match if nothing else
> does, but I can't tell for sure yet.
> 
> The new depends code will leave the existing rules in the file until a spell
> successfully installs, then blow away all old answers (including linty
> bad ones), and commit the new ones concerned with the current spell.
> 
> Theres also a -R option to recursively wander down the depends tree
> and recast spells that are already installed down to the leaves of the
> tree. So failing the default rule for whatever reason, or to know for sure
> that depends are correct in a subtree, (instead of doing a total rebuild)
> the -R option will save the day.
> 
> Coincidentally theres a -B option to go the other direction (up the
> depends tree, recursively). Running -B and -R together is quite fun
> to watch.
> 
> Circular depends warnings wont go away though, but those are just warnings
> and make shouldn't die from those alone...

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