Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
5) The attitude that our users can find a package in JPackage if it's
not in Fedora is detrimental to us. Where ever possible, we don't
want user's to have to *find* packages, we want them to be able to
yum install the package out of the box.
From a user's perspective, the best way to not have to 'find'
jpackage packages - or worry about conflicts - would be for the yum
configuration for the jpackage repo to be installed out of the box in
fedora and have no duplication at all.
As indicated earlier, that wouldn't really work either. It would bring
in all the problems in separating Fedora Core and Fedora Extras with the
additional legal liability of linking to a third party repository. All
programs including Openoffice.org which has some Java dependencies would
have to moved out of the primary repository into a third party one. Not
going to fly.
Then just admit that the duplication causes more harm than good and make
the user set up his own yum configuration if pointing to jpackage is a
problem for you. Do the same with openoffice if you can't support it
without badly duplicating packages with better upstreams. What's the
point of making things worse for your users?
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