[fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist
Gary Benson
gbenson at redhat.com
Thu Sep 15 16:00:55 UTC 2005
Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > Suggestions welcome :)
>
> I'm not sure what the best solution is, but here are some
> alternatives to consider:
>
> 1. Change the names of gcj packages, so that they don't match the
> JPackage versions. For example, gcj-tomcat5 could "provide"
> tomcat5. It should be pretty easy to conditionalize this in
> the SPEC files.
You wouldn't believe how awful this is. I've done it before, for
Stronghold. It seems trivial, but it's actually a nightmare, and
the total package count in Stronghold was a tenth of what we're
dealing with now.
> 2. Move the Fedora gcj packages into a separate repository from the
> rest of the distribution. This would at least allow people to
> create a "pure" JPackage system by simply disabling this repo.
>
> That's all I can think of for now. Perhaps others have ideas.
>
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