That much dependences ? (rssowl hell)

[Kevin Kofler]

Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> Welcome to java hell.  The java stuff isn't really packaged well enough to 
> have concise dependencies and instead you wind up with the whole stack.

Isn't this more a "let's stuff everything and the kitchen sink into the class 
library and make it part of the language^W'platform' definition" problem than a 
packaging problem? As Nicolas Mailhot says, packages are already broken up, but 
Java has a "let's require everything" mentality.

        Kevin Kofler