On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:19:10AM -0800, Danek Duvall wrote:

> > What makes a package "top-level"? I don't get the definition.
> 
> There's no formal definition.  I would probably characterize it as one that
> you'd expect the user to care specifically about adding or removing from
> the system, as opposed to an adjunct package that, for the most part, you'd
> expect users not to care about, and to just come on to the system as a
> dependency of some other package.

By that definition, SUNWxvm and SUNWvirtinst should be the only required
packages: the others are all plumbing.

> > If an incorporation will do what I think it will, and that's sensible
> > for a cluster, then I think it should do. That is, if I have the cluster
> > installed, and virt-manager, then an update of the cluster should give
> > me a newer virt-manager if there is one. If I don't have virt-manager,
> > then it's OK.
> 
> An optional dependency will have the same effect, but more correct
> semantics (I believe), as the two different dependency types evolve.

OK, that then.

thanks
john
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