Top-level package names, UX questions

[Martin Albisetti]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 4:16 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer
<gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Why would the manifest carry the approved alias?  This sounds like
> out-of-band information.

Agreed it's out-of-band information
I think mvo's argument is so you could rely just on the packages to
reproduce a working system. Otherwise you would need to copy over the
installed packages + extra metadata obtained from the store on
download/install.
I don't think I have a strong opinion either way, though.


-- 
Martin