Re: package system: questions, suggestions, alien

ville> Another idea; when package A does not _require_ package B, but having B ville> around would bring in some extra goodies to A's functionality; a ville> RECOMMENDS feature could help. Again, maybe versioned as said above. ville> There's already some discussion about this in [3]. Oh, and then a ville> (versioned?) CONFLICTS relation between packages that don't coexist ville> nicely... Up to here sounds good. However, CONFLICTS is tricky. What one would desire is for CONFLICT to prevent or warn about packages being required w/o others being unloaded, or some to that effect, since different peopls could want different sets of packages (or same user, at different times under different tasks). best, -tony -- A.J. Rossini Rsrch. Asst. Prof. of Biostatistics U. of Washington Biostatistics rossini(a)u.washington.edu FHCRC/SCHARP/HIV Vaccine Trials Net rossini(a)scharp.org -------------- http://software.biostat.washington.edu/ ---------------- FHCRC: M-W: 206-667-7025 (fax=4812)|Voicemail is pretty sketchy/use Email UW: Th: 206-543-1044 (fax=3286)|Change last 4 digits of phone to FAX (my friday location is usually completely unpredictable.)