suggestion: move all java packages to extras

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Nov 28 18:27:49 UTC 2005


seth vidal (skvidal at phy.duke.edu) said: 
> 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?

Splitting GCJ itself off from the complier wouldn't really work well.

Bill




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