On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:52 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
>>>>> "RC" == Ralf Corsepius
<rc040203(a)freenet.de> writes:
RC> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
>> The Java packages in Fedora which originally come from the JPackage
>> repo are the only packages which fall under this exception. And
>> those packages will always fall under this exception, forever and
>> ever, amen (or until something dramatic changes).
RC> So Fedora will never have java packages of its own and depend on
RC> jpp?
I'm having trouble understanding how you get from spot's statement
above to your conclusion.
There are some packages which come from jpackage and there are some
that don't.
Then you might be able to explain why
* compatibility to packages from a 3rd party repo such as jpackage are
of any importance to Fedora.
Except that people ARE mixing jpp-packages with Fedora, just like they
do with freshrpms, atrpms, livna, dribble and many others I don't see
any difference.
* why the origin of a package is of any importance to Fedora?
Has it been stated otherwise somewhere?
Yes, e.g. his sentence
above. I read this as "we will always continue to
use jpp packages, and do not package java on our own".
Ralf