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["Bearcat M. Sandor" <sourcemage AT feline-soul.com>]

I gotta say, that's just too cool. If it's not documented, it needs to be.  I 
mean ideally we'd generally have things on one line for readability, but i 
can see some situations where a query should enable a number of dependencies.

Nice.

Bearcat M. Sandor

On Thursday 17 August 2006 23:53 in an email titled "[SM-Discuss] multiple 
depends in one line" Juuso Alasuutari wrote:
>Does this really work like it seems it does?
>
>====
>
>optional_depends  "glibc gcc"  ""  ""  "for great justice"
>
>root@kamayuq:~# cast foo
>Computing previously installed dependencies...
>foo preparing environment...
>foo checking dependencies...
>foo has an optional dependency on glibc gcc (for great justice)
>Do you want to use glibc gcc? [y] y
>glibc No work to do.
>gcc No work to do.
>Collating dependencies...
>Spells are to be cast:
>---------------------------
>foo
>
>Do you want to cast these spells? [y]
>
>====
>
>If this is a feature not a bug I'm happy because it's a useful one, and if
>it's a bug please declare it a feature. :)
>
>How does cleanse handle this if one of the listed dependencies are removed?
> Is this in stable sorcery?

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