goran.krampe at bluefish.se wrote:
> In short - if we start to have "name based" references INSIDE the SM
> model (which IMHO this is - the dependency model should be inside SM
> otherwise we will not be able to work with it) then we immediately need
> to add a lot of smarts to make it work. It is simply not KISS anymore.


Why would it not be KISS?   UUID's are just names that you are
promising not to change.  What extra smarts are you envisioning?

As an existence proof, Debian gets along quite well with name+version.


Lex