Les Mikesell wrote: In fact, I don't
see any reason any java code needs to be specialized for a distribution or included in its own repository. Why not just make fedora work with an external repo for java that works across distributions/versions and avoid the issue entirely instead of shipping something that isn't quite java? Even when a real java can be included, what is the point of having specialized distro/version packages of the apps that don't need specialization?
There is no "specialization" usually necessary for including software in the repository. Fedora avoids specialization by being close to upstream usually. Relying on a external repository for Java would mean that we can't include any Java programs within Fedora. Parts of Openoffice.org, Eclipse and dozens of programs were introduced into the repository because of the work that went into GCJ, classpath etc and even OpenJDK has benefited from that now.
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