On Tuesday 18 March 2003 10:16 pm, Doug Way wrote:
> My thought is that having the two update streams would be rather
> complicated to manage.  (Speaking from the update stream manager's
> point of view. ;-) )  My assumption was that we would not have an
> update stream for the kitchensink image; the update stream would
> only follow the shrinking image.  So there would really only be one
> "active" alpha image, and package removals would be performed as
> updates.

Not necessarily. A preamble to a optional package-related fix could 
test for the package and stop loading (by raising a YAGNIException?) 
if the package wasn't there...

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