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

[Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 09:10:52AM -0700, Per Bothner wrote:
> 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.)

Ok a misunderstanding then. Sorry. :)

Regards,

// Ola

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