Unconventional

I started a new project late in 2014 which I knew would be fertile ground to keep pace with the what's happening in Laravel 5.  It's been a great learning experience merging in changes from the upstream Laravel project branch as they happened. The keen observer might have noticed however that Taylor made a commit on December 4th that "broke" support for packages designed to target Laravel 4. @Omega_ ehhh maybe… i’ll see how it shakes out… need to finish that up next week — Taylor Otwell (@taylorotwell) January 1, 2015 Patience is key, so I was happy to continue waiting for the next great thing . In Laravel 4, packages allow their configurations to be overridden per environment.  A package can ship a default configuration which can then be copied into the project as a template to be combined with the original's settings at runtime.  Think of it as a really tricked out  array_merge_recursive . By removing ServiceProvider::package , what's being co...