just what is a 'brick' ?

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Describe the bug

I've read the introduction, worked through the guide and am now dipping in to the poly reference, but I still don't know what a 'brick' is.

In the introduction there is a strong emphasis on "LEGO-like bricks" and further references allude to a 'brick' being a composition of component and project, but I'm working through the testing docs now and see that 'brick' has become a baked-in concept somewhere along the way but it's still not clear to me what one is.

Does a clear definition exist? I thought I read the introductory material quite closely.

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I think my problem was the Gitbook documentation, it's layout/format/pagination is not good for me, especially when the poly tool documentation looks almost identical but is a different type of documentation (reference vs introduction/guided docs).

I found an old broken link here:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/k43lki/polylith_the_last_architecture_you_will_ever_need/#geatz3e

Which lead me to going back through the github history of the polylith repo to find the last tag where the single-page github documentation was present:
https://github.com/polyfy/polylith/tree/v0.2.12-alpha

And then a in-page search for brick yielded this:

With the definition I was looking for:

Components and bases are referred to as bricks (we will soon explain what a base is)