[Fedora-packaging] Java guideline inconsistency

[Jussi Lehtola]

On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 17:33 +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All!
> 
> 2009/5/9 Jussi Lehtola <jussi.lehtola at iki.fi>:
> 
> [sorry, skipped]
> 
> > Also, I find it a bit inconsistent that java packages don't have to have
> > a java- prefix as python, perl, php and so on packages have to.
> 
> I'm afraid that the idea with adding such prefixes was (and is) very
> stupid. In order to separate lang-specific packages (except
> sub-packages, like someapp-somelang) we should add more rpm groups,
> like Development/Languages/FooLang

Quite on the contrary. I think prefixes are quite useful, since many
language specific packages might have otherwise conflicting names, e.g.
I could imagine python-argparse, java-argparse and so on.

RPM groups, on the other hand, aren't used for anything any more: comps
are used instead.
-- 
Jussi Lehtola
Fedora Project Contributor
jussilehtola at fedoraproject.org