https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1323186 Rick Tierney <rick.tierney@xxxxxxxxx> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flags| |needinfo?(nhorman@xxxxxxxxx | |m) --- Comment #40 from Rick Tierney <rick.tierney@xxxxxxxxx> --- Neil: I discussed the new strategy with my team and everyone believes that this approach would be "user unfriendly". Here are some things to consider: 1. Specifying "Requires" in the spec file only indicates what libraries are required during the run-time execution of opa-fmgui; it doesn't automatically install them. So if they aren't already installed, an error message will be displayed when attempting to run opa-fmgui. The user will then have to manually install the missing 3rd party libraries making this a hardship on the user; and this can be as many as 35 jar files in the worst case scenario. 2. If Fedora were to ensure that the correct versions of all the 3rd party libraries that we need are already installed as part of the Fedora release, this is "more user friendly"... but if the user comes along with another application that requires a different version of a 3rd party library than what we are using, it could potentially render opa-fmgui useless since we haven't tested it under the new version of the library. 3. If we package the 3rd party jars in the lib/ folder under the binary RPM and specify the class path to point specifically to that folder, the user is guaranteed to have a working opa-fmgui regardless of what other versions of 3rd party libraries are installed on the system. Based on what we have discussed previously about eliminating the jar files, is it safe to say this is just a preference rather than a mandate? If it is allowable, we would like to continue packaging the jar files in the binary RPM. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx