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[Jason Flatt <jflatt AT sourcemage.org>]

On Monday 26 September 2005 08:33 am, Andrew wrote:
>
> We could have a "suggested_depends" command supplied by sorcery that
> would merely add a spell to the list of spells to cast without incurring
> any actual dependency ordering. The question would only get asked if
> the spell wasnt already installed.
>
> In this case:
> espgs depends on cups
> cups has a suggested depends on espgs (for postscript printing)
>
> Just an idea.
>
> -Andrew

Well, I certainly am not going to suggest potentially unnecessary code for 
you 
to write,  :^)  but there are probably many instances where something like 
that might be handy.  As an example, in working on the Asterisk spells, there 
are a couple of add-on spells that optionally depend on the main asterisk 
spell.  If you don't know about them, however, you're not likely to cast 
them.  Making them optional_depends on asterisk wouldn't work, but making 
them "suggested_depends" of asterisk would at least bring them up during the 
cast of asterisk.

-- 
Jason Flatt
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