Re: The evils of /usr/share/java/repository

[Per Bothner <per@bothner.com>]

Ola Lundqvist wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 12:15:59AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
>
> > My proposal does not say anything about /usr/bin/java, except that
> > the default classpath should include jars of installed packages.
> > I am agnostic about the specifics of how that is done.
> Note that there are no default CLASSPATH. As the (normal) debian
> policy says there should be no dependency on a environment
> variable. And the same goes for CLASSPATH. So the only place
> to set the CLASSPATH (before running the real java vm) is in
> /usr/bin/java.
>
> But maybe I have misunderstood you?
It seems so.  By "default classpath" (note the lower case) I mean the 
builtin
mechanism for getting whatever classes are available when no options
are specified on the command line and the user has no environment
variables set.  (If /usr/bin/java is a script that sets CLASSPATH that
is an implementation detail.)