Re: [fedora-java] Re: Fedora Core 5 Wishlist

[Gary Benson]

Ian Pilcher wrote:
> Gary Benson wrote:
> > Suggestions welcome :)
>
> I'm not sure what the best solution is, but here are some
> alternatives to consider:
> Change the names of gcj packages, so that they don't match the
> JPackage versions.  For example, gcj-tomcat5 could "provide"
> tomcat5.  It should be pretty easy to conditionalize this in
> the SPEC files.

You wouldn't believe how awful this is.  I've done it before, for
Stronghold.  It seems trivial, but it's actually a nightmare, and
the total package count in Stronghold was a tenth of what we're
dealing with now.
> Move the Fedora gcj packages into a separate repository from the
> rest of the distribution.  This would at least allow people to
> create a "pure" JPackage system by simply disabling this repo.
>
> That's all I can think of for now.  Perhaps others have ideas.
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