Yeah, I wasn't really suggesting it as a course of action. It was more of a mental exercise so I could grasp the issue better.
On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 12:13 PM, Christopher <ctubb...@apache.org> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 3:07 PM William Slacum <wsla...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Is another action we could take be adding profiles for each version of > > dependencies to include appropriate dependencies (and dependencies' > > metadata)? > > > > > That could be a potentially huge number of profiles, and it would add a lot > of complexity which is certainly going to suffer from lack of maintenance > over time. I really think this kind of thing (integration) is a distinct > responsibility better suited to external/downstream tasks than > internal/upstream. > > > > I guess right now the problem is we throw in a generic "one size fits > all" > > distribution, and we're seeing the cracks in it? > > > > > Yes. That's my opinion. >
