Understanding Patch Clusters

I'm wondering if anyone has looked at the various patch clusters available on Sunsolve in detail:
e.g. For Solaris 10 SPARC there's the following:
•     Solaris 10 SPARC 05/08 Patch Bundle Chunk 1/2/3
•     Solaris 10 Sun Alert Patch Cluster
•     Solaris 10
The first one supposedly brings you up to date as per the 05/08 media. It's the other two I'm puzzled about. The latter one is the "recommended" patch cluster and the definition of this is almost exactly the same as the definition for the Sun Alert Patch Cluster - and I believe there is a possiibility that these may be combined in future?
Anyway, digging deeper - the 2 clusters each have 119 patches included, and the only difference I can see is that despite both clusters being dated Sep 2008, the Recommended cluster has latest revisions of each patch whereas the Sun Alert one has many which are many revisions obsoleted (cf 118712-22 vs 118712-08).
This is backed up by the fact that the Sun Alert cluster is considerably smaller that the recommended one.
Anyone understand why there are these discrepanices?
Regards,
GXW

Thanks. That's a lot clearer now - so they do contain the same patches - the alert bundle contains the minimum level of each patch which fixes a know alert - and the recommended bundle contains the highest available versions of those patches.
Can I ask a follow-up question? If I do a "smpatch update" with my patchpro.patchset set to "current", which of the 3 patch bundles listed in my original post does this equate to?

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