Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (422 mails)

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak@xxxxxxx>]

Putrycz, Erik wrote:
> I read http://en.opensuse.org/Java/Packaging/Cookbook and it states "the
> convient approach in Linux distribution is use of the system jars" for
> third party jars.
> I don't know if you are aware of the maven repository but packaging
> third party jars in rpm manually is currently a little redundant.
> The maven repository provides a lot of meta data including dependencies
> on java archive files and is kept quite up to date plus is mirrored.
> Wouldn't it make more sense to integrate somehow the maven repository to
> zipper and be able to retrieve dependencies from a java program from
> maven?
> Or another approach could be a gateway from maven to rpm.

There is idea* about plugins for zypper. Maybe this could be implemented
as such plugin, which could use maven metadata and provide virtual
packages like java-maven-{name} for installing and uninstalling.

CCing Jano as the idea author.

* http://idea.opensuse.org/content/ideas/plug-in-support-for-zypper

> Erik.

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