Make mod dependencies override incompatibilities

[Mecejide]

TL;DR

Allow two mods to load together, even if one is marked as incompatible with the other, as long as some third enabled mod has required dependencies on both of them.

What ?

Current behavior:

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If mod A is marked as incompatible with B, and you enable both, only B will load, no matter what.

Proposed new behavior:

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Now, since C requires both A and B, enabling all three will cause all three to load.

Why ?

If one of your mods doesn’t work well or at all with another mod, it makes sense to mark it as incompatible so that it’s clear they aren’t supposed to be used together. The problem is, this means that if a third person comes along and makes a mod to fix the problems on their own, it don’t do anything without modifying the code in your mod, which many people don’t want to do.

[DarkShadow44]

While I technically agree, out of experience I know that people will still report compatibility issues to the mod, which could have been prevented due to the incompatibility setting. There is also an argument made to respecting the authors decision to mark a mod as incompatible.