asdf :force t

Once upon a time someone here (I think) was heard to ask about the
behaviour of asdf's :force option when there are inter-system
dependencies.  In short, should (operate 'compile-op :force t)
on system B also recompile all of system A, when B depends on A

There are arguments both ways, of course:

On the one hand, when I recompile all of cliki it's usually because my
lisp comnpiler's fasl format has changed, and so I do actually want to
rebuild all of araneida, db-sockets and the rest of the dependencies.

On the other, if I have dependencies on other people's systems, I
probably don't even have appropriate filesystem rights to rebuild them?

What do people think?  There ought to be some way to say "these
systems form a logical unit and compile operations should spread to
them; those systems are `infrastructure' and should be left alone".
Preferably without editing .asd files, too.  Any ideas?  For my
immediate need I think I'm going to add something like

 (defgeneric forcing-operation-spreads-to (system operation))

but I haven't thought too hard yet.


-dan

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