Please stop adding dependencies to the state package

[Eric Snow]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:05 PM, David Cheney
<david.cheney at canonical.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please stop adding dependencies to the state package.
>
> The dependency tree for state must go
>
> mgo <- state <- things that depend on state
>
> At the moment state depends on things like backups, multiwatchers,
> presence, toolstorage.
>
> This is wrong.
>
> Eric, i'm not picking on you here, it's just that b sorts first, and
> this is the one I saw today. There are many other examples, including
> the multiwatcher which also break this model
>
> If you add functionality to state, then the code has to go ***INSIDE**
> state, or be written to take a *state.State.
>
> Please help me out by not adding more dependencies to state.

Thanks for pointing this out, Dave.  I'll fix this for backups.

-eric