Re: asdf-install installs more than you ask for

Marco Antoniotti <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
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On Feb 2, 2006, at 4:07 PM, Gary King wrote:

> The current ASDF-Install architecture looks for every ASDF and  
> MK-DEFSYSTEM file in the downloaded tarball(s) and then loads all of  
> them. In my opinion, this is incorrect. If I ask to install X, I want  
> to download X and then load only X. X's dependencies should be loaded,  
> but not any systems that happen to come along for the ride.
>
> I'll be crafting a patch for this unless convinced otherwise...

The correct patch would be to add a list of precedences about which  
type of system to add (which could be overridden by passing a keyword  
parameter).  This happens only for libraries which provide different  
kinds of defsystems.

Cheers
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