On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 at 16:46, Emmanuel Seyman <emmanuel(a)seyman.fr> wrote:
* Kevin Kofler [19/09/2019 16:12] :
>
> That could have been prevented by policy, but deliberately was not, because
> the people behind Modularity had exactly this (moving random packages to
> module-only) as their hidden agenda.
I'm quite certain that forbidding people to move to module-only would mean
that we would not only not have a Java stack in Fedora but also no Java
module too.
You can argue that that's a good thing. Mikolaj wouldn't have gotten half
the abuse he got for being the last remaining member of the Java SIG and
we wouldn't have crazy conspiracies accussing people of moving packages
to module-only because $REASON but having a Java module is better than
not having one.
That is not taking all of Kevin's proposal. In his proposal, that
would just mean that whatever last working version of Java would stay
there until the end of time. If it stopped compiling on updates, then
the last version which did stays in Fedora until provably broken.
He might also say that Java is a curse and if it went away.. that
would just mean people would go back to coding in C++ as they should.
However that is speculation on my part.
--
Stephen J Smoogen.