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I've been working on introducing layered dependencies in the base image. That is, packages depend _only_ on packages below them. An immediate consequence of such a system is that you cannot have cyclic dependencies. You also have a _constructible_ system.
The System package, however, stands as "vertical" package in the system. On one hand, it provides abstract hooks to services - AppRegistry subclasses like ToolSet, for instance.
It also provides all manner of low level stuff, like System-Change Notification, SARInstaller and System-Object Events.
And then it provides loads of extra stuff as well: crypto, an HTTP client, finalization, and so on.
It's not that System is particularly large - it's only a little bigger than Kernel - but that System is a bit scattered in purpose, and provides too much inter-layer complications.
Suggestions on how to break up System into smaller, more focused packages, greatly welcome! (Especially in the form of commits!)
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