Re: Java policy: finding the base directory of the default JRE/JDK
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Shyamal Prasad wrote:
[...]
| Debian executables "must not depend on environment variables to get
| reasonable defaults" is the actual statement.
[...]
| You can't require that a user sets JAVA_HOME for a default
| installation of a java application to run in a reasonable
| manner. That's all. As some one who has lived in csh hell I *love*
| this policy.
|
| In my specific case, if JAVA_HOME is not set then the Emacs packages
| for JDEE currently don't work reasonably.
Many thanks for the reply and the links; I will read those. I can see
where the policy is going, I just wonder how practical it is. If I am
not mistaken, the Eclipse executable also depends upon JAVA_HOME being
set correctly.
Regards,
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Barry Hawkins
All Things Computed
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Registered Linux User #368650
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