On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 1:02 PM, David Walluck <david@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 03/07/2014 09:01 AM, Michael Simacek wrote: >> I've split the slf4j package into subpackages. The api, simple and >> nop submodules were left in the main package, in order not to break >> many packages > > In my opinion, the best way to do that is to have the slf4j package be > empty and then have Requires on the subpackages that you think you need. > One advantage of this method is that it allows a full package split. > > Even though I think that the current split is a step in the right > direction, it still shows the arbitrary way in which Fedora Java > packaging has always been done, where, instead of splitting all > artifacts according to upstream, the packager just chooses either a full > monolithic package with everything (usually with incorrect Requires), or > whimsically splits out some arbitrary subset of jars. > > Please note that this is not meant to be a criticism of this packager or > any packager generally, but an expression of my opinion in general. I agree with this. As a long-time Fedora user, hoping to start contributing some java packages (which will likely depend on slf4j), I think this would be a good precedent to set. -- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
