Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 14 18:39:21 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:

> How about changing the names of the packages (and perhaps the location 
> of the files) that you must include for dependencies?  I'd much rather 
> waste space with duplicates that don't conflict than have potentially 
> conflicting same-named packages/files.

That's a ugly hack and won't on all cases. Some paths are just 
standardized and changing them would break a lot of things including 
non-packaged applications. You have to figure out specific issues and 
talk to the Fedora Java team.

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Rahul




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