IMHO, the releases better include everything necessary to build the
application, within reason. Consistency and simplicity counts for a lot.
Why create headaches we don't need?
"within reason". Thats where we're way off right now.
Let's keep a bit of perspective here. The non-Parrot:: contents of lib accounts for only 4.6% of the non-ICU content (and only 1.5% if you count ICU in the total size). It's difficult to see that as unreasonable, or as "bloat".
JEff