suggestion: move all java packages to extras

Brian Pepple bdpepple at ameritech.net
Sat Nov 26 15:48:49 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:43 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> B/c of the rapidly evolving nature of the gcj and related java tools,
> what if we moved them to extras so that work on those packages could be
> both public and move faster?
> 
> It would be a big savings on the size of core and it seems like adding
> those packages over there would be the most correct as the java packages
> don't really have any necessary reason to be in core.
> 
> What do you think?

+1.

I'm all in favor of reducing the size of core. Hopefully, someday it can
be whittled down to 1 cd.

Though, isn't the openoffice.org packages dependent on several of the
java tools?

/B
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