Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Les Mikesell]

Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> 
>>>> Are you saying there is no hope for improvement?
>>>
>>> Not with your suggestion solutions, no.
>>
>> Then what solution is there other than switch to a distribution that 
>> hasn't fragmented its upstream support community this way?
> 
> Try finding one more suitable for your magic needs. Good luck.

Sun Java 1.5 and the distro-imposed need for java-sun-compat is about as 
mainstream and un-magic as you can get, which is why I use it as the 
poster child for this discussion, but it's a repeating theme and the 
details don't matter.  Take just about anything that isn't included in 
the fedora repository for whatever reasons - and there seem to be plenty 
of reasons - and the distribution has made it harder than it should be 
to install and maintain.

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   Les Mikesell
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