Find a way to improve handling optional imports in Karaf
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Key: FELIX-1635
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FELIX-1635
Project: Felix
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: karaf-1.0.0
Reporter: Gert Vanthienen
When installing a bundle, optional imports that unavailable at that time are
ignored. However, if those ignored packages become available afterwards, users
have to manually refresh the bundle to get the optional imports wired
correctly. When a user is unaware of this, she'll probably experience a
problem that gets fixed when the container is restarted (because bundles are
being wired again),
We should try to come up with a mechanism to improve this experience. One
possible solution would be to improve the features mechanism to support
refreshing existing bundles, so we can indicate that a given bundle needs to
refreshed when a feature is being installed. Another way to handle it would be
by keeping tracking of unwired optional imports and when automatically
refreshing bundles when more imports become available. Probably needs a bit
more investigation though to find a solution that works...
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