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

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:45:40PM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> On Sep 27, Jason Flatt [jflatt AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 11:19 am, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > > > On Sep 27, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> > > > > This is a very useful feature, I think, but if it's not affecting
> > > > > ordering and is more of a suggestion, I'm not sure it should be
> > > > > considered a dependency.
> > > > >
> > > > > Perhaps it should be called a symbiont and be put in a SYMBIONTS 
> > > > > file,
> > > > >
> > > > > Or friend or amicus/amici or mutual_with or simply uses or 
> > > > > related_to,
> > > >
> > > > How about just 'suggest espgs', possibly in a SUGGESTED file.
> > >
> > > Works for me.  I was being half facetious when I "suggested" symbionts.
> > >
> > > :)
> > >
> > > Seth
> > 
> > I kind of liked your idea of a single file to handle all that stuff.  Of 
> > course I'm not submitting any patches, so I'm not sure how far my opinion 
> > will carry.  :)
> 
> Single file is probably better, I agree.

I just wanted one or the other.  Either we have one file that handles 
the dependency processing gestalt, or we have a different file for each 
concept.  One file saves space on disk, which is probably the most 
important difference between the two philosophies pragmatically.

Seth

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