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From: "Andy Grimm" <agrimm(a)gmail.com>
To: "java-devel" <java-devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 6:03:38 PM
Subject: [fedora-java] osgi system bundle
Hi, all. This morning I was dealing with a build issue related to
broken eclipse package, and it surprised me that eclipse was being
pulled into my buildroot for a random java package. The root of this
is that osgi(system.bundle) is provided by eclipse-rcp, which
requires
eclipse-platform, and osgi(system.bundle) is now being required by
some fairly commonly used java packages:
xalan-j2-0:2.7.1-13.fc18.noarch
xbean-0:3.11.1-3.fc18.noarch
xml-commons-apis-0:1.4.01-7.fc18.noarch
xml-commons-resolver-0:1.2-9.fc18.noarch
In particular, xalan-j2 is required for pretty much the entire java
ecosystem, including ant, maven, groovy, various apache-commons
packages, etc.
So what's the rationale for this? Perhaps this is a bug? Maybe
something needs to be subpackaged differently? The current state of
things seems a bit bloated to me.
Well, these are bugs in the packages you mentioned. See
http://wiki.osgi.org/wiki/System_Bundle for description what system.bundle is. There is no
point in any bundle requiring system.bundle unless they call stuff from org.osgi.framework
which neither xalan-j2 nor xml-commons do. Please open bug reports against the respective
packages to fix their osgi manifests.
TBH, we probably can move the system.bundle provide (it's manual) to
eclipse-equinox-osgi. Chris, would you please take care of moving this provides.
Regards,
Alex
Regards,
Alex
Thanks.
Andy
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