Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Why, for example, couldn't the changes you say
fedora needs as a dependency for openoffice be included in the
jpackage repository for that fedora release and maintained as exact
copies?
You are again ignoring reasons already explained. Jpackage specializes
in Java packages and doesn't include all the packages Fedora does and
vice versa. So the dependencies cannot be the same. Even it does there
are differences in release cycles, patches, packaging and licensing
policy among other reasons. It is pretty difficult to have two variants
of a software with different maintainers in two different repositories
perfectly in sync all the time even with the best efforts.
The 'different maintainers' is the point in question. Did anyone offer
to maintain the duplicated packages upstream with needed changes instead
of forking incompatible ones? Packages fedora doesn't include and vice
versa are irrelevant as long as the dependencies within each set can be
met internally. It's not a matter of whether this is difficult or not,
it is a question of whether some well informed person involved with the
distribution/repositories does it once or whether every user who needs
something not included in the base repository has to muddle through the
incompatibilities himself and hope it doesn't change by the next update.
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