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  • From: Jeremy Blosser <jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] meta spells
  • Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:02:53 -0600

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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