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[Panu Matilainen]

On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Lillian Angel <langel <at> redhat.com> writes:
>> Correct. The -devel package now includes visualvm, which depends on
>> netbeans-platform8.
>
> IMHO an optional tool which is not required to build Java programs has no
> business being in java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel.
>
>> We can talk about moving this out to a separate package,
>
> I think that makes a lot of sense.
>
>> and adding it as a "Suggests" for the java-1.6.0-openjdk-devel package.
>
> Do we have all the infrastructure for soft dependencies in Fedora yet? I
> don't think we do.

No we don't. Soft dependencies were supposed to go into rpm 4.6.0 but 
didn't make it afterall, as I wasn't happy with some details of the 
existing implementations and didn't get around to work them out in time.

 	- Panu -