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

On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 02:27:24PM +0200, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Le samedi 07 octobre 2006 à 14:12 +0500, Alexander Tsamutali a écrit :
> > > The force_depends would be conditional upon the gtk+ version. So it
> > > wouldn't force recompilation unless the version is different. "version
> > > is different" of course could be defined as "major version bump" so
> > > minor version bumps would not force recompilation. Spells have a pretty
> > > wide range of freedom over how they use an interface. Please consider
> > > the possibilities more carefully.
> > 
> > You mean something like:
> > 
> > depends gtk+2
> > if installed_version gtk+2 <= 2.16 ; then
> >     force_depends gtk+2
> > fi
> > 
> > Yes that is what i want, but IMHO it would be better to put this code
> > into sorcery, not in spell.
> That's not necessary to modify sorcery for this, a function in
> libgrimoire is more appropriate, right Andrew ?

Yep, in the grimoire FUNCTIONS file, or some other grimoire library
for common DEPENDS stuff. (libgrimoire is actually a sorcery file,
but i know what you meant).


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