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[Juuso Alasuutari <iuso AT sourcemage.org>]

On Thursday 21 December 2006 20:27, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> <snip>
>
> > So, first lets quantify the problem. What spells/spell groups need this
> > functionality? For sub-depends what I did was create a feature bug for
> > it, and have spell bugs with sub-depends as the resolution depend on
> > it. Then I looked for the common thread between them. Start with real
> > examples and lets objectively analyize them.
>
> An example of a spell that has multiple dependencies based on a query
> is kdesdk.
<snip>

Another example that touches the whole kde-core section where 
a "multi_optional_depends" would be helpful is libxml2 + libxslt. These are 
used by all KDE components for reading KDE documentation, but they're only 
useful when combined. When they're behind separate optional_depends (like 
they are now) that's one query too many, and it leaves a chance to pull in 
only one of them and gain nothing.

I'll try to whip up a master bug during the holidays, and add some per-spell 
ones as well.

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        Juuso Alasuutari
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