Ned Konz wrote:
> Actually the idea of configurations (sets of package to load) is
> definitely part of Goran roadmap (He's written about it on the list
> before).
>
> I think it'll probably turn out both pretty simple, and very, very
> useful.
>
> One small problem with using scripts is composition - how do you handle
> a script that loads two scripts, that have a shared requirement? with
> scripts, you load it twice. Configurations should handle that better.
>
> Daniel

I'm not suggesting that load scripts would solve everything...just that they
would be useful.  DVS doesn't solve all the thorny issues of packages, bug
darned if isn't incredibly useful.

But, regarding this specific issue, I would not write any load scripts that
loaded other load scripts.  Load scripts would only load packages (which
shouldn't be loading other packages).  In this case you would have a lot of
cases where load scripts were duplicating entire sets of packages (so no
reuse), but on the other hand it keeps things simple and dumb until
something better can be implemented.

- Stephen