Fedora and JPackage proprietary JDK shims
Matthew Saltzman
mjs at clemson.edu
Sat May 3 02:05:37 UTC 2008
On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 17:01 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> > Bottom line - should Fedora ship the proprietary JDK shim? I don't
> > think it's worth the user confusion over just telling people to go to
> > JPackage, but if someone stepped up, did the work, and submitted it
> > and was going to maintain/own it, it might happen.
> >
>
> If "proprietary JDK shim" is the nosrc.rpm for the proprietary JDK's I
> don't think it should go into Fedora.
Not sure, but I bet the "shim" is the java-sun-compat package that lets
you install the Sun RPM, then sets up alternatives and other symlinks to
make the expected incantations work. That is not a nosrc package,
though it may have no actual source. It depends on the Sun RPM from
java.sun.com.
>
> -Toshio
>
>
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Matthew Saltzman
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