Quoting Toshio Kuratomi (2013-11-19 10:49:57) > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 09:29:40AM +0100, Stanislav Ochotnicky wrote: > > Quoting Toshio Kuratomi (2013-11-18 17:08:12) > > > On Nov 15, 2013 4:09 AM, "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotni...@redhat.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Quoting Jaroslav Reznik (2013-11-15 12:28:11) > > > > > * (optional) Mass-change spec files that have "Requires: java" to > > > "Requires: > > > > > java-headless" > > > > > > > > > > Other developers: > > > > > * Modify spec files to have "Requires: java-headless" instead of > > > "Requires: > > > > > java" > > > > > > Could you say a few words about why a java-headless package was chosen > > > instead of java-x11 (as an example name)? > > > > > > > I believe the term was chosen because it's widely used term in Java world. > > Oracle uses that term in official documentation as well[1]. Last but not > > least, > > Debian uses that term as well and I see no reason to be different just for > > the > > sake of it. > > > I mean (and sorry that I wasn't clear), why the choice to make java-headless > the special case? Especially if (as it appears from the reply to Jerry > James), most packages in Fedora will only need the headless version. > > (So the headless version would be the java package, The version with the > gui nevironmen deps would be java-x11 or similar).
If someone wanted to install just OpenJDK for their own in-house Java application they would have to know to request full -x11 version. I would wager we'd be receiving a lot of bugs if we went this way. If someone needs headless they will be actively looking for it. If they want "java" they will not consider that they might get incomplete version. Not to mention possible 3rd party RPMs that might exist -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotni...@redhat.com> Software Engineer - Developer Experience PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
