Proposal: Rolling Release

[Les Mikesell]

Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 11:18 -0600, Les Mikesell wrote:
>> I fail to see how, for example, including a java-1.5.0-sun-compat 
>> package in the box, or maintaining a working relationship with the 
>> jpackage.org packagers would have compromised any sensible positions, 
>> yet it would have dramatically changed the user experience.
> 
> Which policy prevents this from happening?

I have no idea.  Up through FC5, jpackage packages worked.  Then some 
small subset of packages that looked like they had a jpackage history, 
not including any reasonable way to install Sun java were included in 
the fedora repo and fedora support was dropped in the jpackage repo. 
Probably unrelated, but around the same time, Sun Java 1.5 was included 
in the RHEL5 update repository.  I basically gave up on getting any of 
it to work.

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   Les Mikesell
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