No, it's hardly a standard. It's just a common approach. The article presents another approach which differs on the three points you mention: manifest plus lock

No, it's hardly a standard. It's just a common approach. The article presents another approach which differs on the three points you mention: manifest plus lock as separate declarations, SAT solver, single dependency version per compilation unit. And I think what Russ proposes is a really interesting tradeoff in the design space.