On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:52 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
"RC" == Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de writes:
RC> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 10:12 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:
The Java packages in Fedora which originally come from the JPackage repo are the only packages which fall under this exception. And those packages will always fall under this exception, forever and ever, amen (or until something dramatic changes).
RC> So Fedora will never have java packages of its own and depend on RC> jpp?
I'm having trouble understanding how you get from spot's statement above to your conclusion.
There are some packages which come from jpackage and there are some that don't.
Then you might be able to explain why * compatibility to packages from a 3rd party repo such as jpackage are of any importance to Fedora.
Except that people ARE mixing jpp-packages with Fedora, just like they do with freshrpms, atrpms, livna, dribble and many others I don't see any difference.
* why the origin of a package is of any importance to Fedora?
Has it been stated otherwise somewhere?
Yes, e.g. his sentence above. I read this as "we will always continue to use jpp packages, and do not package java on our own".
Ralf