On Feb 15, 2004, at 8:19 AM, Lex Spoon wrote:

> I would like to toss out that, even though Linux guys often *can*
> reference particular versions of a Linux package, they rarely do.  In
> normal development, including all of three phases I will describe 
> below,
> developers universally grab the newest version of a package that is
> available.

Absolutely, but I don't think that dependencies in Monticello should be 
used to model relationships between packages, but rather relationships 
between different parts of a single package.  Think of it more like 
subdirectories within a CVS tree - you're not very likely to checkout 
one version of one directory and a different version of another 
directory.  Rather, you check out the entire module at once at a 
certain tag.  That's what I was trying to emulate.

The problem is that right now we don't have any way to specify the kind 
of dependency you're talking about, and we definitely need it - but I 
believe that when we do have it, it should be SM's job, not MC's.