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

On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:45:06PM +0200, Mads Laursen wrote:
> On 27/09/05 08.43, Jeremy Blosser (emrys) wrote:
> > How about just 'suggest espgs', possibly in a SUGGESTED file.
> 
> Then a 'suggest' would be the inverse of an 'optional_depends'? So
> if cups has 'suggest espgs' and espgs has 'optional_depends cups'
> I could cast cups and be asked, if I wanted to have espgs with that?
> That would be cool - and even cooler if cast would then know to answer
> yes to the optional_depends?
> 
> Just putting down the fist thing that came to mind, after reading this
> thread.

This would work, unless it wasn't optional but a hard depends, in which 
case, it wouldn't be needed.  I suppose we could just write the 
persistence entry into the database and not care if there's extra cruft 
related to suggestions in it.  Or we could have a temporary suggestion 
store for the life of the cast that's checked later.  That would be a 
bit cleaner if not as intuitive.

Seth

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