Re: beecrypt-java (Was: rawhide report: 20050207 changes)

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le mardi 08 février 2005 à 23:39 +0100, Dag Wieers a écrit :
>  On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>  
>  > Le lundi 07 février 2005 à 23:59 +0100, Axel Thimm a écrit :
>  > > On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 10:34:10PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>  > > > Do you imagine the mess if ~ 1000 java-something hit rawhide ? Because
>  > > > we have this number of java packages in jpackage.
>  > > 
>  > > Regardless of naming issues, are indeed 1000 packages waiting to be
>  > > imported into rawhide? I.e. will all of jpackage be imported?
>  > 
>  > I don't think so (who knows;)
>  > But if the java-xx virus caughts on we'd have to preemptively rename a
>  > lot of stuff just in case it gets imported someday (to avoid packagename
>  > conflicts later)
>  > 
>  > Not fun at all;(
>  
>  Well, that's why a policy should have been made at the very start. Naming 
>  is very important and the lack of a naming policy is causing all sorts of 
>  confusions and problems (like the lack of a 'virtual package' namespace). 
The point that you seem to miss of course is the "very start" was
several years ago for jpackage. Moreover jpackage is not a pure FC pipe
- its release schedule is not synched with FC's at all.

Even if only say 25% of the packages were to be changed they're likely
to be core packages with mass rebuilds as the result to fix requires in
the rest of the repo. For a win that's dubious at best given the
platform fragmentation.

Regards,
-- 
Nicolas Mailhot