Summary of the 2008-04-08 Packaging Committee meeting

[Rahul Sundaram]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>
>>>>> Are you saying there is no hope for improvement?
>>>>
>>>> Not with your suggestion solutions, no.
>>>
>>> Then what solution is there other than switch to a distribution that 
>>> hasn't fragmented its upstream support community this way?
>>
>> Try finding one more suitable for your magic needs. Good luck.
> 
> Sun Java 1.5 and the distro-imposed need for java-sun-compat is about as 
> mainstream and un-magic as you can get, which is why I use it as the 
> poster child for this discussion, but it's a repeating theme and the 
> details don't matter.  Take just about anything that isn't included in 
> the fedora repository for whatever reasons - and there seem to be plenty 
> of reasons - and the distribution has made it harder than it should be 
> to install and maintain.

Do feel free to find ones that suit your purpose better and use them.

Rahul