Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:

> 
> The users list might tell me how someone else managed to work around 
> certain difficulties but no one there would be able to help eliminate 
> them or know whether that work-around is expected to be reliable through 
> updates or just happened to work for the person who tried it.  And 
> particularly in the case of jpackage I don't see the point.  Is it 
> impossible to make the parts you have in common identical or change the 
> names so you have nothing in common?

It is not impossible but it is pretty difficult and simplistic solutions 
just don't work. Fedora just cannot drop all the Java related packages 
as you wanted for reasons explained in detail earlier.

Rahul