Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath
Hallo Ean,
* Ean Schuessler wrote:
>On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 16:10, Jan Schulz wrote:
>The difference is that the Kaffe package would not try to provide
>"j2sdk1.4". Kaffe just provides "kaffe". Packages that know they will
>work with Kaffe can explicitly depend on it.
Sorry, if I haven't made that clear in the propsal, but that is
actually what I proposed. You can use the 'unfree-interface' (which
should be the same, when using a sun licensed JVM) or any known free
*working* JVM.
>The problem is that "java2-runtime-<spec-version>" doesn't really
>provide anything more than "j2re1.4". It is just a wordier way to refer
>to Sun and IBM's VM, neither of which can actually be distributed by
>Debian.
The problem is, that this JVM can be installed and will often be a
better choice (apache with tomcat and full load on kaffe?). This
interface is for such a case.
Currently you forbit this, as you only know where the BD package put
their java and so it will break if you have sun-java packaged
(mpkg-j2sdk) and instaleld with that name.
>Kaffe is actually mostly compatible with the JAVA_HOME "standard" now
>that I use symlinks for Debian compatibility. It might be worth making
>the JAVA_HOME structure part of Debian policy. GCJ and friends could
>create some simulation of it by symlinking stuff into a fake JAVA_HOME
>structure.
I much for this, but it will need 'protection', so that this system
prevents to mistake kaffe for a sun compatible JVM-1.4.
Jan
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