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[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

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Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> I have a spell that needs one of its dependencies built against a specific 
> provider.
> 
> spell A DEPENDS:
> depends -sub some_provider7 B
> 
> spell B DEPENDS:
> depends SOME_PROVIDER
> 
> I can't come up with a good way to implement this.
> If I just add a some_provider7 dependency then the current one chosen for 
> SOME_PROVIDER is possibly redundant (and any provider related logic may 
> break 
> down).
<snip>

Your best bet is to just have spell B depend on the specific provider in
SUB_DEPENDS and in PRE_SUB_DEPENDS use get_spell_provider to check if B
is already using some_provider7 for SOME_PROVIDER, and if not, return 1
(failure) so that the dependency can be setup.

- -sandalle

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