MetaPackage capability

[alexbarbato]

Describe the problem/challenge you have
Currently we install a number of Packages - they have interdependencies, but there is currently no codified way to formalize those interdependencies.

Describe the solution you'd like
Ideally there'd be some API that allows me codify a series of Packages go together. In theory you could do that with a Package, but absent the tooling supporting it becomes a bit of a bridge too far for the average user.

In order to seamlessly do that you have to much of the plumbing to pass around values to children packages as an example.

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[praveenrewar]

@alexbarbato Do you think solving the problems mentioned in #361 would work for your use case?

[alexbarbato]

Oo that does cover the use cases I described! Is there a plan to pick up any of that work?

I guess we can close this one then?

[praveenrewar]

We haven't prioritised it yet, however there has been demand from the community for it and we are trying to look more into how we can best solve the dependency management problem. I am okay with keeping this issue open till we have an update.

[Sarita-Singh]

Hey @praveenrewar I think if there is bazel support for the project, we can get package dependencies including transitive dependencies through bazel query

[renuy]

Closing this, as we are working on dependency management.
carvel-dev/carvel#732