Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> 
> Once you start relying on yum/rpm, there's nothing much uglier than 
> conflicting packages.

Conflicting third party repo/packages are for distributions regardless 
of the package manager.

> If things are standardized to the point that they can't be changed, then 
> I don't see how keeping those jpackage/fedora versions identical can be 
> such a big problem.

I didn't claim everything was standardized. Just that paths cannot be 
changed for all packages to avoid conflicts.

>> You have to figure out specific issues and talk to the Fedora Java team.
> 
> I'd hope there could be a general solution.

There is no silver bullet.

Rahul