[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#6158) police stations and women suffrage

["Mike Kaufman" <kaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 02:04:10PM -0700, Jason Short wrote:
> Genevieve Gracian wrote:
> 
> Fundamentally these flags shouldn't be needed at all, though.  Once 
> gen-effects is in place, it should all be automatically calculated from 
> the ruleset.  Freeciv should be able to determine that Police Stations 
> are redundant with Women's Suffrage, and that the latter is never 
> obsoleted.  City Walls are redundant with Great Wall, but the later is 
> obsoleted.  Thus we can get different behavior at the interface end 
> without lots of ruleset work.

I don't see how gen-effects will eliminate the need for these flags. They
are only tangentially related.

-mike