Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Bill Nottingham]

Tom spot Callaway (tcallawa at redhat.com) said: 
> On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 14:29 -0400, Deepak Bhole wrote:
> 
> > A page detailing the reasons for keeping the exception is now up on the
> > wiki:
> > 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DeepakBhole/ReasonsForKeepingJPP
> 
> Deepak, thanks for writing that up. Seth Vidal has helped me come up
> with a technical solution that should meet the requirements described in
> your document.
> 
> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/exclude-by-group/

This seems very wrong.

What I'm reading is that JPackage developers want to not use anything
in Fedora that also exists in JPackage.

Isn't this better done by repo costs and similar plugins, rather
than hacks either in the package version or vendor which can
be easily fooled?

Bill