On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 07:30 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:37:53AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 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.
I don't think it's bad that Fedora cares about compatibility with 3rd
party repos,
Neither do I.
in fact I wish that this kind of mutual cooperation
rather extends.
Exactly this is the point, I am asking: Why explicitly care about jpp?
Ralf