Re: preferred location for jars vs. symlinks

[Vincent Fourmond <fourmond@debian.org>]

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Onkar Shinde <onkarshinde@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:26 AM, tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org> wrote:
>> I've noticed that some of the more recent CDBS packages are installing jars
>> under /usr/share/maven-repo/$class-hierarchy/$upstream-version/$library.jar, and
>> then symlinks in /usr/share/java/ over to ../maven-repo/...
>>
>> By contrast, javahelper packages will install the jar under /usr/share/java/,
>> which is what I think was intended in section 2.3 of Java Policy [0].
>>
>> Is this an area where we should clarify the policy?  It seems like the actual
>> jars should consistently be in one location or another, although maybe there's a
>> good reason to do it the other way around when we're dealing with the maven
>> repo.  Thoughts?
>
> In my opinion the jars should be installed to /usr/share/java always.
> In case of dealing with local maven repo the symlinks should be
> created in /usr/share/maven-repo/.

  I agree with that. Placing a JAR file in /usr/share/java means: this
library is for public use. Not doing so implies that the library is
private. I don't think that maven-built libraries are systematically
private, are they ?

  Cheers,

      Vincent