On Tue, 1 Dec 2009, Gary King wrote:

>> There would be several benefits if FIND-SYSTEM were to simply PROBE-FILE
>> for a system definition in each of the configured paths (e.g.
>> path1/system.asd, path2/system.asd) until one is found.  Better
>> efficiency, no pollution from unrelated packages, etc.
>
> I agree except that ASDF doesn't require that the definition of foo be found 
> in foo.asd or that bar.asd contain system bar. If we enforced this then we 
> could say that find-system is a wrapper for a clever probe-file. Otherwise, 
> we need to load definitions to make sure that things are happy. n'est pas?

Consider my comment as a feature request.  Drepper's dso howto explains 
issues that might negatively affect ASDF systems in the large.

- Daniel

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