On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:37:53AM +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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.
I don't think it's bad that Fedora cares about compatibility with 3rd party repos, in fact I wish that this kind of mutual cooperation rather extends.
As a general rule of thumb I would say that
o cooperation enlarges the community and that's one of Fedora's strength, o if it's cheaper for Fedora to cater for compatibility than reinvent the wheel, then why not? o if compatibility obstructs otherwise something and is not worth it can always be dumped, i.e. it is not the highest goal