Re: [PROPOSAL] New Virtual Packages and way to handle Classpath
Hallo Jan,
--- Jan Schulz <jasc.usenet@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hallo Dalibor,
>
> * Dalibor Topic wrote:
> >> I much for this, but it will need 'protection', so that this system
> >> prevents to mistake kaffe for a sun compatible JVM-1.4.
> >Could you elaborate on this one, as in give an example where kaffe can be
> >mistaken for Sun's JVM 1.4 why such protection is needed?
>
> /usr/bin/java -> Currently it is the default way to access java and it
> can be provided by sablevm, kaffe, gcj, BD packages or mpkg-j2sdk made
> packages:
>
> jan@snoopy:~/debian/RPM/SOURCES$ update-alternatives --list java
> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4/bin/java
> /usr/bin/gij-wrapper-3.0
> /usr/lib/kaffe/bin/java
> /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/bin/java
> /usr/lib/j2se/1.3/bin/java
> /usr/lib/j2sdk1.4-bd/bin/java
>
> As it is know to be that 'unprotected', every package sonly uses it as
> a fallback after consulting JAVA_HOME.
I still don't see the harm by kaffe providing a java wrapper script.
But what about /usr/bin/java not being provided by the VM packages, and just
being a wrapper script that delegates the call to a working, installed VM as I
proposed in another mail?
cheers,
dalibor topic
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