Re: icedtea6-plugin not installed by default
> Default in what sense? I don't think any Java anything, or even any web
> browser that could use such a plugin, is installed by default in a base
> installation. I assume you mean one of the desktop tasks?
Yea, possibly along with OpenJDK.
> Java web applets are relatively rare these days in my experience, at least
> compared to Flash. I run into them, but not daily.
I absolutely agree with what you said.
I was saying this more from a new user perspective, he bumps into an
applet and he's just lost, might even think he doesn't even have a
JVM/JRE or what a JVM/JRE is for that matter. I was just wondering
because after all, icedtea6-plugin is a very small package.
Adnan
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> wrote:
> Adnan Hodzic <adnan@foolcontrol.org> writes:
>
>> It may be blunt question, but I was wondering why is "icedtea6-plugin"
>> not installed by default in Squeeze?
>
> Default in what sense? I don't think any Java anything, or even any web
> browser that could use such a plugin, is installed by default in a base
> installation. I assume you mean one of the desktop tasks?
>
> Java web applets are relatively rare these days in my experience, at least
> compared to Flash. I run into them, but not daily.
>
> --
> Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
>
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