Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
>>
>> The users list might tell me how someone else managed to work around 
>> certain difficulties but no one there would be able to help eliminate 
>> them or know whether that work-around is expected to be reliable 
>> through updates or just happened to work for the person who tried it.  
>> And particularly in the case of jpackage I don't see the point.  Is it 
>> impossible to make the parts you have in common identical or change 
>> the names so you have nothing in common?
> 
> It is not impossible but it is pretty difficult and simplistic solutions 
> just don't work. Fedora just cannot drop all the Java related packages 
> as you wanted for reasons explained in detail earlier.

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.

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   Les Mikesell
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