FC4 slimfast slimfest

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Feb 21 22:28:49 UTC 2005


On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 05:22:00PM -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:

 > > Java can all live in a java repository. There is a vast amount of it and we
 > > don't have room.
 > 
 > I would like to see at least a minimal free Java toolchain/environment in
 > Fedora.  This is a slippery slope that leads to language-ism, IMHO.  Why
 > stop with Java?  Let's put all python stuff in its own repository as well.

The important difference here is that system-config-*, yum, up2date, rhn-applet and
various other 'core' components are written in python, not java, so the
comparison is meaningless imo.

		Dave




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