[aur-general] Submitting a new package (sunjdk)

[Daenyth Blank]

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 20:49, M Rawash <mrawash at gmail.com> wrote:
> not really, unless you regard kde packages in [extra] as duplicates of
> those in [kde-mod]. jre and jdk is just sun's jdk split into two
> packages for the sole purpose of having smaller binary packages, but
> serve no purpose at all if you are building from a pkgbuild.
>
> however, if you still see it as problematic, you can well remove it,
> i'll continue to use it personally anyway..
>
> cheers
>
>

The analogy doesn't carry very well here.. The kdemod repos 1) are not
officially supported or endorsed, and 2) contain patches that change
functionality.

That being said, I wouldn't go so far as to entirely delete the
package, I just think it's a useless duplication of effort