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[Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>]

On Dec 25, Juuso Alasuutari [iuso AT sourcemage.org] wrote:
> 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.

Did we get a bug for this?  mutt needs some of this as well.

I hope people do not mind too much if I keep replying to old threads or
miss some things in between, hopefully catching up is worth it.  :-/

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