suggestion: move all java packages to extras

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Sat Nov 26 16:04:40 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 10:57 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > +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?
> 
> I doubt it's dependent on tomcat and jonas or eclipse or any of the
> other misc java items.

It actually is dependent on eclipse to build.  And tomcat is
increasingly a "core" server piece similar to php[1]

Jeremy

[1] Yes, I know the hate that PHP has from you Seth, but quite frankly,
I don't think that taking LAMP out of Core is at all wise.




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