[Feature Request]: Update `@carbon/styles` to a more recent `@ibm/plex`

The problem

We’re on Carbon 10 and our entire application is standardised on @ibm/plex@6.0.2 - the latest version of this package is @ibm/plex@6.1.1 which we could probably also use.

We recently added a dependency which makes use of @carbon/styles to our application and we discovered that this added a dependency on @ibm/plex@6.0.0-next.6:

https://github.com/carbon-design-system/carbon/blob/4b9b09a55304717307f288d8b588d23294318793/packages/styles/package.json#L42

This dependency is 50.6MB on disk. This is admittedly is a huge improvement over our current @ibm/plex which is 194MB on disk… but because we have two Plex installs in play at once, means this isn’t an improvement for us, it’s a regression of 50.6MB. This increases our install times and disk usage.

The solution

I suggest that @carbon/styles should use the same Plex version as the rest of the Carbon ecosystem, a recent, supported version. If you want to experiment with new beta versions of Plex, I think that should be done using a beta version of @carbon/styles itself.

Examples

No response

Application/PAL

IBM App Connect Enterprise (don’t know what a PAL is)

Business priority

Low Priority = release date is not dependent on fix or not upcoming

Available extra resources

I can open a PR to change this version number but I don’t know if that suffices.

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project’s Code of Conduct

[tw15egan]

@s100 I wasn’t able to push to your branch, but I’ve put up a new PR here if you want to take a look

[s100]

I don’t see that @ibm/plex needs to be integrated into this repo in order to do this, surely this is just a simple version change?