FC4 slimfast slimfest
Andrew Overholt
overholt at redhat.com
Mon Feb 21 22:46:40 UTC 2005
* Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> [2005-02-21 17:29]:
> 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.
I obviously wasn't serious :) .
I really do think that a re-evaluation of what is 'Core' and what is
'Extras' (which I really do believe is a misnomer, BTW) is necessary. Or
at least a clarification.
Andrew
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