Re: rawhide report: 20081031 changes

[Kevin Kofler <kevin kofler chello at>]

Lillian Angel <langel <at> redhat.com> writes:
> Correct. The -devel package now includes visualvm, which depends on 
> netbeans-platform8.

IMHO an optional tool which is not required to build Java programs has no
business being in java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel.

> We can talk about moving this out to a separate package,

I think that makes a lot of sense.

> and adding it as a "Suggests" for the java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel package.

Do we have all the infrastructure for soft dependencies in Fedora yet? I
don't think we do.

        Kevin Kofĺer