suggestion: move all java packages to extras

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 12:02 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 11/26/05, seth vidal <skvidal at phy.duke.edu> wrote:
> > actually the gist of the thread is - why do we keep adding new items to
> > core?
> >
> > Why not add them to extras?
> 
> 
> There's a corollary to that... does Core need to be self-hosting? Or
> is it enough to have Core+Extras build self consistent?

I think core needs to be self hosting, yes.

otherwise it makes building things from scratch a little bit of a
chicken-egg problem.

-sv