Yes, this is what we decided on our meeting.. we are moving all dependencies to be included the "right" way, and retrofitting the build system to calculate feature dependencies based on those entries, instead of counting on eclipse PDE to auto-bundle things that are listed as <plugin>.
just to be clear:
Our old/current way of bundling things are *wrong* in context of
integrating with the rest of
the eclipse ecosystem. you should only have <plugin> for plugins that is
actually part of the plugin
everything else is <import> of either plugin's or feature's.