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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] requires problem
  • Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:37:43 +1000

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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 06:51, Andrew wrote:
> Ive noticed something with requires, say two spells both require
> something, say x11-libs, each spell will then ask what provider of
> x11-libs you want, even if you've already answered the question, but then
> if you answer the question the same way twice, sorcery just adds the
> spell to the list of depends to resolve again, so you can end up with
> xfree86-libs on the list several times, along with xfree86-devel and
> xfree86, clearly the resolution needs to work a little better.
>
> Maybe if requires was abstracted back into depends, since a requires
> cant share a name as a spell. Then you could reuse some of the same code
> in theory. What do people think?
>
> -Andrew
I believe Martin may have this under control ?
Not sure but if guru's fix the provides problems from spell names then he
could add his work and we would fin out :)
(http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4278).\
Hamish
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