Rudder

I was told this never worked and is to be expected.

In fact it worked in 3.2 and 4.0 and 4.1.
I've sent details to jon.

I would ask you to please investigate this carefully.
It's a quite big difference.

Reworking the policies is not desirable.
Being able to use really makes polivy a lot cleaner, even if you only get a report that the ${var_group.pkg_list} stuff was installed.
Not to mention rebuilding all policy parts that refer them includes a lot of manual work and risk.
Hours if you don't actually test / QA your work, more if you do.