[Base] Proposal for buildrequires cleanup janitorial initiative

[Colin Walters]

On Thu, 2013-12-12 at 18:50 +0100, Phil Knirsch wrote:
> Hi everyone.
> 
> During last weeks Base WG discussion about package set and self hosting 
> of Base we came to a point where especially the self hosting of Base 
> would currently look absurd as we'd require more than 2000 components to 
> do so.

Once you reduce the size of this set, do you forsee actually *enforcing*
this in some way?  For example, by having separate package repositories?

If not, what's the point of this initiative?