also: karaf sort of solves this problem via karaf-features-plugin, right?

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Subject: Re: pax exam config duplication
From: Harald Wellmann <hwellmann...@gmail.com>
To: General OPS4J <general@lists.ops4j.org>
Date: Fri 28 Sep 2012 11:10:03 AM CDT
> This is an FAQ, and if it were easy, I guess we'd have implemented a
> solution already ;-)
>
> You have to worry about transitive dependencies, API bundles vs.
> implementation bundles (like org.osgi.core vs.
> org.apache.felix.framework) and lots of other things. For every
> scenario or proposal I've seen so far, it is easy to construct
> counterexamples where the suggested approach would not work.
>
> I'm not saying it can't be done at all, but my feeling is it would be
> a lot of effort to catch all sorts of weird cases, and I don't think
> it would pay off.
>
> Another benefit of listing provisioned bundles explicitly is working
> with different configurations in different tests of the same Maven
> project, which would not be possible if the configuration were derived
> from the POM.
>
> Best regards,
> Harald
>
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