Add a shortcut to define that the pod that a pod is a part of is also its dependency.

examples/Podfile

 
-dependency 'SSZipArchive', '>= 1'
+#dependency 'SSZipArchive', '>= 1'
 
 #dependency 'ASIHTTPRequest', '1.8'
-dependency 'ASIWebPageRequest', '= 1.8'
+#dependency 'ASIWebPageRequest', '= 1.8'
 
 # is part of ASIHTTPRequest 1.8 and 1.8.1
 dependency 'Reachability' #, '>= 2.0'
@@ -18,5 +18,5 @@ dependency 'Reachability' #, '>= 2.0'
 # * the Reachability dependency should be taken from this version
 # * the ASIWebPageRequest dependency requirement matches this one so should work
 #dependency 'ASIHTTPRequest', '1.8.1'
-dependency 'ASIHTTPRequest', '>= 1.8'
+#dependency 'ASIHTTPRequest', '>= 1.8'
 

lib/cocoa_pods/specification.rb

@@ -67,6 +67,11 @@ module Pod
       @part_of.part_of_other_pod = true
     end
 
+    def part_of_dependency(name, *version_requirements)
+      part_of(name, *version_requirements)
+      dependency(name, *version_requirements)
+    end
+
     def source_files(*patterns)
       @source_files = patterns
     end