suggestion: move all java packages to extras

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 08:28 -0800, Anthony Green wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:43 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > B/c of the rapidly evolving nature of the gcj and related java tools,
> > what if we moved them to extras so that work on those packages could be
> > both public and move faster?
> 
> This wouldn't really help anything move faster, since we're limited by
> the GCC update cycle.
> 
> > It would be a big savings on the size of core and it seems like adding
> > those packages over there would be the most correct as the java packages
> > don't really have any necessary reason to be in core.
> 
> This is about as helpful a statement as saying C++ packages don't really
> have any necessary reason to be in core.  I think suggestions like this
> should be based on specific applications.

So let me put this another way - I'm tired of all java applications
being added to core by default.

You said you included jonas in core in your most blog entry. Why didn't
it go to extras by default. What is it about jonas that you thought
meant it deserved to be in core? 

-sv