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wanne
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OR dependencies

Post by wanne »

Please add the possibility to add dependencies with OR.
For resolving: Testing if a requirement is already resolved is easy. If not: Just ignore everything after the first OR.
Downsides:
= What mods are activated will depend on the order you install them.
> But in a very intuitive way: If people explicitly want the other dependency and not the first one, they are very aware of the implications of this OR and know that there are different solutions in which case they will look for the first one and deactivate it.
It not: The game will always go for the first thing in the or statement.
= In some cases the game won't find a solution automatically even if there is one.
> First: This is already the case thanks to optional dependencies.
> Second: This would only affect solutions you can not do at all at the moment. Just make a rule out of it: Mod dependencies have to be resolvable by only installing the first parts of every therm. (And ignore the rest for your upload check.) Pretty sure: There is no possibility, where this is no reasonable requirement. And even if: It will still be a very rare case that couldn't be done at the moment.


This is kind of a follow up to
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viewtopic.php?p=692799
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