JMC package and linking libraries

[Jie Kang]

Hi,

Sorry for the noise all, I didn't intend to send this to list. For
more context, it's to do with attempts to package JMC in Fedora that
Salman announced @
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jmc-dev/2018-November/000424.html


Sincere apologies,

On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 8:49 AM Jie Kang <jkang at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> When sym-linking all dependent library jars, JMC unfortunately pulls
> in eclipse-platform package as a dependency to satisfy some of the
> jars. This package brings in 397 M worth of dependencies, even though
> the jars that we are interested in are only a tiny fraction of that;
> JMC itself is less than 70 M, with the RPM being slightly smaller due
> to some features being removed.
>
> I think Fedora's bundled library policy has become less strict but it
> would still not correct for us to deliver JMC with eclipse packages
> bundled. I don't think there's anything we can do except ask for the
> eclipse package to ship sub-packages, if at all possible. Is this even
> an issue to worry about?
>
>
> Regards,