Brian Cameron wrote:

> I'd just like to make sure that we aren't "throwing out the baby
> with the bath water" and switching to a system that might be more
> problematic to manage in the future by doing this.  One advantage
> of using meta-packages is that it allows us to ensure that related
> packages are distributed together, which I would imagine helps to
> avoid related modules getting out of sync with each other.

Package boundaries should be determined by minimization considerations.
Packages that are revised as a set (e.g. built and tested together)
should express their consanguinity via an incorporation; this ensures
that while still individually (ignoring other interdependencies)
installable they would be updated/installed as part of a matched set.

- Bart


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Bart Smaalders                  Solaris Kernel Performance
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