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acoburn: If no one really understands them well, maybe we should get rid of them.
ajs6f: BOMs are for when you want to inherit dependency management from a project without inheriting the full POM.
awoods: No one is using Fedora in the way that would make a BOM complement useful.
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ajs6f: When the transitive dependency is interesting by itself, and not just an artifact of the direct dependency.
acoburn: There are some dependencies on Apache Commons libraries that show the different approaches as to whether to call out a transitive dependency.
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acoburn: Suspects that there are some serious problems with the calculations for child count.
The call finishes with a long series of sonar pings while attendees mutter, "Hello? Hello?" and ask each other whether they are still on the call.