On 03/20/2012 11:33 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:

      
I'll make the necessary changes in affected component to replace inclusion by dependency.
If you see any trouble because of this, please tell me; it will be ok to use inclusion if required, and a workaround exist to get sources for such features too.
either open a jira for these modules with a patch or send the fisheye changeset here when done so its easy to look at.

The only reason I recall there being  a need for feature inclusion is when the updatesite zip is created - then it will contain the proper dependencies.
Indeed, included features are a way to solve the issue you describe.
However, the clean way to modify update-sites is to add the feature (even if it is not categorized) to the site.xml or category.xml directly. As Denis explained, including features is OK if you (as a project/component) are the only one building and shipping the included features.

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