Exactly. And I think an additional plus of this approach is that it makes
it easier for consumers (i.e. other developers) to create a well defined
target definition based on your feature definition.

Regards,
Markus

On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Ken Lee <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Thanks for your quick responses.****
>
> ** **
>
> Yes, this is more or less what I thought of. I guess we need to provide a
> feature that includes all necessary bundles (Batik, etc.), i.e. something
> similar to your RAP equinox feature [1].****
>
> We will provide such a feature for Kepler M7.****
>
> ** **
>
> [1]
> https://github.com/eclipse/rap/blob/master/features/org.eclipse.rap.equinox.target.feature/feature.xml
> ****
>
> ** **
>
> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On
> Behalf Of *Markus Knauer
> *Sent:* Mittwoch, 20. März 2013 15:43
>
> *To:* RAP project development-related communication
> *Subject:* Re: [rap-dev] B3 aggregation fails****
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Ken Lee <[email protected]> wrote:****
>
> Yes, this is the first time we provide a Scout-RAP feature for Kepler
> since we finished our migration to RAP 2.x****
>
>
> I hope everything works so far, maybe we can discuss your migration
> experience at EclipseCon. Could be interesting for both of us.
>
> Back to your question: Because this turns out to be a Simultaneous Release
> issue it would be better to ask this on cross-projects-dev mailing list,
> but since you asked here, I'll write my thoughts here ;-)
>
> The validation sets in b3 are like islands where you ensure that p2 can
> resolve all dependencies locally. In order to solve your specific problem,
> it is required to put all dependencies into this validation set, e.g.
> include all required Batik bundles there. This won't duplicate them because
> they are in the overall p2 repository anyway (I've seen them there).
>
> As far as I remember it is possible to define a validation set
> 'inheritance', but I wouldn't suggest to go this way. Instead I would
> extend the existing validation set.
>
> Hope that helps...
>
> Regards,
> Markus****
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