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  • Subject: [SM-Sorcery-Bugs] [Bug 10110] New: 'suggests' syntax
  • Date: 21 Nov 2005 15:43:04 -0000

http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10110

Summary: 'suggests' syntax
Product: Sorcery
Version: Untargetted future release
Platform: Other
OS/Version: other
Status: NEW
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: depends
AssignedTo: acedit AT armory.com
ReportedBy: jblosser-smgl AT firinn.org
CC: sm-sorcery-bugs AT lists.ibiblio.org


There was some discussion recently about a 'suggests' syntax for sorcery that
I
don't see in bugzilla anywhere, so I'm filing a bug. Now that it's been
discussed I keep wishing my spells could use it. ;-D

The idea is to supplement the existing dependencies and (planned) build
dependencies with a listing of spells that are useful alongside the spell
being
cast, but not required by it. Normally these secondary spells depend on the
spell being cast, but not always. Regardless, they should be cast *after* the
initiating spell, not before as is the case with depends or optional_depends.

The suggested syntax would be 'suggests foo'. Whether this would go in the
existing DEPENDS file or a new SUGGESTS file is an implementation question
IMO.

We would want some standards around the usage of this, since we don't want a
situation where casting linux suggests every known standalone module project
no
matter how obscure, and probably don't want to even always suggest the gui
frontends for various projects. Probably we'd only want to use it in
situations
where the suggested package is used the vast majority of the time the base
package is used. Normally now this ends up in people wanting to set both as
depends of the other, even though that isn't correct.


cc'ing sm-sorcery-bugs because depends bugs appear to be set to assign
directly
to afrayedknot...

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