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MIR: extend explanation by review feedback
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <[email protected]>
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Further packages, not installed by default, can also be added via the
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[supported seeds](https://git.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/+git/platform/tree/),
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usually because they represent an important workload to the Ubuntu userbase.
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usually because they represent an important yet optional workload to
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the Ubuntu userbase.
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In general *pulling into main* is done directly via {ref}`seed-management` or
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indirectly via a dependency from something that already is in `main`.
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For something to be allowed into `main`, all its runtime dependencies must also
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be in `main`. In the past, build-dependencies also had to be in
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`main`, but since 14.04 Trusty that is no longer a hard requirement.
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For something to be allowed into `main`, all its code and runtime dependencies
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must be in `main`.
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In the past, build-dependencies also had to be in generally `main`, but since
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14.04 Trusty that is no longer a hard requirement. This is meant to easen
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the burden on tools only e.g. rendering documentation, yet it does not mean "no
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build-dependencies are needed" either. Code that is built into the resulting
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artifacts even without a dependency to another package in the final packages
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metadata shall be in main as well.
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This is the default for some ecosystems like rust and go, but also valid for
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e.g. C headers if they contain not just definitions but large amounts of
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active code that is built into the binaries.
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## MIR process overview

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