Re: Default JRE and Java plugin

[Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>]

Le 07/10/2015 12:32, Matthias Klose a écrit :

> as a recommends or as a suggests.

I think 'recommends' would be better, so the plugin is installed
automatically with the JRE, but it remains an optional dependency.


> when you remove icedtea-8-plugin, you cannot directly re-install it
> without relying on, or knowing the versioned name.

True, so an intermediate default-java-plugin package has more value.

We could probably make it provide icedtea-plugin too, so people using
old tutorials can still get the right plugin.

Emmanuel Bourg