Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 14 20:45:15 UTC 2008
Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> Once you start relying on yum/rpm, there's nothing much uglier than
> conflicting packages.
Conflicting third party repo/packages are for distributions regardless
of the package manager.
> If things are standardized to the point that they can't be changed, then
> I don't see how keeping those jpackage/fedora versions identical can be
> such a big problem.
I didn't claim everything was standardized. Just that paths cannot be
changed for all packages to avoid conflicts.
>> You have to figure out specific issues and talk to the Fedora Java team.
>
> I'd hope there could be a general solution.
There is no silver bullet.
Rahul
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