On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 09:54:12 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
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> From: "Gerald Henriksen" <ghenriks(a)gmail.com>
> Is it a great solution? Not really, but unless upstream changes
there
> are no great solutions.
IMHO it is the only tenable solution.
Just to note that a similiar issue has just come up on the Fedora Java
mailing list where the person who brought Wildfly into Fedora has
found it impossible to keep it up to date thanks to both time
constraints and the issue that being Java it has required over 100
packages.