[Fedora-packaging] Java guideline inconsistency

Peter Lemenkov lemenkov at gmail.com
Sat May 9 13:33:01 UTC 2009


Hello All!

2009/5/9 Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi>:

[sorry, skipped]

> Also, I find it a bit inconsistent that java packages don't have to have
> a java- prefix as python, perl, php and so on packages have to.

I'm afraid that the idea with adding such prefixes was (and is) very
stupid. In order to separate lang-specific packages (except
sub-packages, like someapp-somelang) we should add more rpm groups,
like Development/Languages/FooLang



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With best regards!




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