On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 05:20:25PM -0600, Shawn Walker wrote:
> Bart Smaalders wrote:
> >As a result, I think filtering should be an exceptional mechanism, not
> >standard operating procedure; removal of header files should not require
> >rendering system unsupportable.
> 
> I'm a little confused here.

Me too.

> Maybe I don't have a great understanding of how facets, variants, and 
> filters are all supposed to fit together.

I thought filtering would work on the basis of tags provided by the
packager, so that filtering wouldn't be exactly ad-hoc -- users get to
choose to leave components out that the packager decided to let them
choose to leave out.

Nico
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