Re: asdf-install installs more than you ask for

Gary King <[email protected]> writes:

> 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.

Why?
 
> I'll be crafting a patch for this unless convinced otherwise...
> 
> Thoughts?

This makes it more difficult to make related systems available with
simple asdf-install invocations; if frob-tests is a system that is
bundled with the frob package, you have to seek out the unpacked
source and manually make the frob-tests symlink to get it
working. There may be no reason to bundle frob-tests as a separately
asdf-installable package.

Zach



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