JPackage and Fedora

[Karsten 'quaid' Wade]

On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 10:01 -0400, Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Lee Faus wrote:

> > Why Fedora wants to duplicate work that is already established and 
> > replicate disk space just doesn't make sense.
> 
> Perhaps this is exactly right.

As a devil's advocate, why shouldn't that repository be Fedora?  In this
case, why not have JPackage merge in to Fedora in some way, either
directly or as a branch project similar to EPEL?

There is a precedent in EPEL of supporting CentOS and other RHEL
derivatives.  Could that be extended for a JPackage branch to cover all
RPM-based distros?

To some degree it is six of one, half dozen of the other.  Things to
keep in mind are:

* Strength of the JPackage brand
* Do the two repositories work well together now?  
* Would making JPackage the "official Fedora Java package repository"
_improve_ interactions between the two projects?
* Could we separate Java packages in to JPackage in a way similar to
Fedora and Livna?

The latter question is, I think, the killer.  We've never experimented
with Fedora having packages with dependencies in another repository.
It's going to take a high level of trust and agreed process/philosophy
to make that work.

- Karsten
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