From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
To: sm-commit AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [SM-Commit] BZR Change 28 to devel sorcery by Andrew Stitt <astitt AT sourcemage.org>
Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 15:29:53 -0700
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 12:25:37AM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 03:16:15PM -0700, Andrew wrote:
> > I'd suggest runtime_depends fall back to depends and suggest_depends
> > fallback to optional_depends. Then you can start converting existing
> > spells (like fcron) now.
>
> runtime_depends falling back to depends should probably work. I'm not so
> sure about suggest_depends as that will lead to circular dependencies
> for the use-case for which it's really meant.
I dont have an answer to this, but consider it might also be bad for
the user experience to effectively remove existing optionals of this
variant that dont cause loops.
> btw., do we have a optional_runtime_depends?
suggest_depends is the optional version of runtime_depends.