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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-sorcery AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Sorcery] Addition to sorcery / DETAILS
  • Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 11:11:03 +1100

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On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 02:16, Robert Helgesson wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 01:38:26 -0600, Mike Sylvester wrote:
> > First time posting, so apologies if this is already out there
> >
> > I've been using sourcemage now for a few months and I love it, nest
> > distro i've ever had, anyways to the point.
>
> Happy to hear that :)
>
> > The one thing that annoyed me is that a system rebuild seems to depend
> > more on when the spells were installed and not the proper compile order,
> > what I propose may not be vary easy but I think will make the distro
> > much stronger as a whole.
>
> [snippity snip]
>
> There is an existing bug related to this problem, bug #3765
> <http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3765>. I don't know very
> much about this issue but I don't think adding further information to
> the spells should be required since at least theoretically you can
> calculate the entire dependency tree based on the DEPENDS files. I
> suspect that it's quite a difficult thing to do though :)
>
> Best regards.

I agree, the DEPENDS listings would be enough to ensure ordering is correct.
It has not been implemented yet though, apparently it would considerably slow
down casting and the dependency generating stage of sorcery rebuild. It was
also considered an enhancement, not a bug, and many other outstanding bugs
have taken precedence.
Hamish
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