On 02/26/2015 08:45 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote: >> I'm not really proposing as I haven't thought about this much yet, but >> the idea was about be adding a few empty binary packages "java", >> "java-devel", "java-headless" and so on (they could be subpackages of >> javapackages-tools). Existing provides with the same names could be >> removed from JDK packages. >> >> "java" would be the preferred JRE in Fedora. The package would have no >> content, but it would have Requires on preferred Fedora JRE, currently >> java-1.8.0-openjdk. This could be easily changed as default JRE changes. >> The same is for other binary subpackages of "java", respectively. >> >> All system packages would require subpackages of "java" as they do now >> (unless there is good reason not to). Users that install "java" would >> get latest JRE, which would be updated to new major versions as they >> become default. Older JDKs would not be removed during update (unless >> there is no maintainer and they are obsoleted as currently), but users >> could remove them with "yum autoremove", unless something requires older >> JDK or they installed it explicitly. > > Does it really seem to you as more simple solution both for packagers > and users? > > it does snot to me... Yes, IMO it is much simpler than the policy you are proposing. -- Mikolaj Izdebski Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
