2012/9/24 Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com>:
2012/9/24 Claudio Freire <klaussfreire@gmail.com>:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Nelson Marques <nmo.marques@gmail.com> wrote:
Check how Sun JDK and JRE act together, specially at scripting level and how they manage the symlinks :) Yes I know that JDK also provides JRE but users will be able to install both packages also, and in that case you should contemplate that scenario and make sure your dummy packages and scriptage can handle that particular situation :)
Conflicts?
Conflicts where? You can't change Oracle packages man; So from that point of view, users will always be able to install both oracle packages... Where do you want to insert the Conflicts? :) Furthermore... Which version of Oracle are you going to support? 1.7.0 with those nasty bugs and a few zero day exploits in the wilderness ?... What about if users dont want 1.7.0 and something else ?
Really, I honestly want to see how a distribution fixes this kind of issue...
I'm specially eager to see people who might want to build stuff against JNI from Oracle packages and how it goes after on dependency resolution. I look forward to see how people can fix all the potential trouble and how long it will take :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-java+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-java+owner@opensuse.org