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?
Maintainers even if they are some which they are in some cases cannot
avoid changes introduced for other reasons. In some cases, they try to
stay in sync. In other cases, they have to deviate. Picking one point
and ignoring others just keeps continuing your discussions endlessly.
But this is the only point with any potential for improvement. It has
been clear forever that the fedora repository isn't ever going to
contain everything users are likely to need for reasons that don't
matter because they aren't going to change. The only issue is how
difficult the fedora distribution makes it to work with the larger
community that pre-dates fedora and is willing to provide those things.
So end this discussion here and just move on.
Are you saying there is no hope for improvement?
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