Just to be clear, the current thinking is that we do not bundle apr/apu at all with 2.4.x... either as a sep tarball (the -deps), nor simply slapped in there (ala 2.2.x)...
I wonder if the issue is that we call that tarball httpd...-deps. I wonder if people would think differently if we named it httpd...-aprlibs or something like that, which makes it clear that we're providing apr/apu simply as a Nice Thing for our end users, but not as a *dependency*, which carries a different connotation ...
