Multilib Middle-Ground

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Fri May 2 18:26:11 UTC 2008


Les Mikesell wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:

>   You can single out what we are
>> doing and say is any more non-standard that what other distros are
>> doing. 'We' aren't making it difficult.. 
> 
> Oh, please... What do you have to do in fedora to get a java working
> that will run most of the the available (but not packaged for fedora)
> open source java programs like opengrok and alfresco?  It's not quite
> impossible but I dare you to claim its not difficult. OpenNMS and
> Openfire sort-of cater to this deficiency by including a JVM in their
> RPM distributions but if you installed both you wouldn't get shared text
> execution and who knows what would execute for other instances.

If anyone ever works out what this complaint might be about and if there's
any substance to it, please let me know.

Andrew.




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