suggestion: move all java packages to extras

Anthony Green green at redhat.com
Sat Nov 26 16:28:16 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:43 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> B/c of the rapidly evolving nature of the gcj and related java tools,
> what if we moved them to extras so that work on those packages could be
> both public and move faster?

This wouldn't really help anything move faster, since we're limited by
the GCC update cycle.

> It would be a big savings on the size of core and it seems like adding
> those packages over there would be the most correct as the java packages
> don't really have any necessary reason to be in core.

This is about as helpful a statement as saying C++ packages don't really
have any necessary reason to be in core.  I think suggestions like this
should be based on specific applications.

AG





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