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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 08:59:37AM -0700, Seth Alan Woolley wrote:
> 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.
> 

Since the idea has some interest I'll put it on the feature queue and
bring it up again when were closer to implementing it. It may coincide
with conflicts related work.

-Andrew

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