Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (824 mails)

[Andreas Vetter <vetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Stephan Kulow wrote:

> Am Dienstag 18 September 2007 schrieb Andreas Vetter:
> >
> > I reopened
> >  [Bug 264228] nspluginwrapper + java plugin problems
> >  [Bug 288750] Home bank issues with java+firefox on x86_64
> > to get a final decision. I know it's really late, but a 64bit system
> > without a working firefox/java combination is a blocker in my eyes.
> And I disagree. If we don't make it obvious that Sun's "x86_64 is for servers 
> only, no-one needs firefox there" is wrong, there is no chance either Sun
> changes that or the open source java catches up. You're free to put your money 
> behind either side, but we took side - on the OSS side of life (with a 
> hopefully easy way for our users to go with a NON-OSS alternative if present 
> on that architecture).

Hmm, I agree that Sun is the culprit, but I think it will fall back to 
openSUSE. At least we need a simple to follow guide how to get a working 
firefox with java (including a complaint to Sun).

> Easing the update path in adding conflicts is very fine with me though. This 
> should be reported though.


-- 
Andreas Vetter
Fakultaet fuer Physik und Astronomie
Universitaet Wuerzburg              
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