I wouldn't use the word useless. Having the packages is just a quality of life thing. Just like for me as mainly C++ developer; not having Basel or abseil does not make Fedora useless for me or C++ developers. It doesn't take much effort to get your environment up and running script the procedure and share with team mates to replicate. \-------- Original Message -------- On Sep 28, 2018, 18:39, Kevin Kofler < kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote:
> > Mikolaj Izdebski wrote: > Users that want to reproduce Ant 1.10.2 build would > need to repeat > series of builds and rely on information stored in Koji to > know what > builds should be ran in what order. Trying to build packages only > from > content released to users would be even more difficult. The point is, > the Ant 1.10.2 package can be used to build itself (as well as hundreds of > other Java packages, including the user's own code). It is not essential to > be able to redo the bootstrapping as long as the bootstrapped binary that is > shipped is self-hosting. And if you want to no longer ship Ant because it is > "only" a build tool, that is going to make Fedora essentially useless for > Java developers. Kevin Kofler > \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an > email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing\_list\_guidelines List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
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