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           Summary: cleanse should handle provider switching
           Product: Sorcery
           Version: Feature Request
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: Cleanse
        AssignedTo: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org
        ReportedBy: acedit AT armory.com


Theres this problem thats come up several times where a user has xfree86
as their standard X11-LIBS provider, and they want to switch to something
else like xorg. However their dependency tree lists X11-LIBS as xfree86
which is no longer installed. This will cause problems with full depends
ordering. (Lets ignore the linking problems people will get from not
rebuilding dependant spells for now).

So I propose we give users a hammer to clean up swapped providers. If a spell
depends on a provider thats no longer installed, then we need to do one of
a) build the missing provider
b) if no provider is found build a provider and set the spell to use that one
c) check for another provider and switch the depends entry to that provider 
   in this case we may as well optionally rebuild the spell to work around
   library issues, or (my prefered action) let --fix deal with it if its
   necessary

The standard usage pattern would probably be
cast xfree86
cast stuff that uses xfree86
dispel xfree86/cast xorg
cleanse with option b to make all xfree86 providers use xorg
cleanse --fix



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