On 03/16/2011 02:32 PM, Michal Vyskocil wrote:
Hi all,
I'm considering drop of update-alternatives [1] support from our Java packages - mainly java-1_6_0-openjdk and java-1_6_0-sun (the gcj will follow, but no one is really interesting on it).
I assume there is no real use case to have more than one implementation installed these days and in fact this system produces confusions for users wanting replace openjdk's plugin implementation by Sun's one (that's the ony one reason for switch I'd to say).
The proposed change is to * drop u-a --install calls from %post/%preun scripts * install all files are now handled by alternatives system to /usr/bin * add Conflicts: otherproviders(jre) and so to all subpackages
I'm also sure this change should be backported to released openSUSE versions, but don't want to decide on my own. We can be more conservative here, even if I don't think we need to be.
So my questions are
* Do you want drop u-a support from Java packages (sun, openjdk) from Factory? * Do you want backport such change to released openSUSE (anyone from maintenance@o.o here?)
[1] http://linux.die.net/man/8/update-alternatives
Best regards Michal Vyskocil
I don't know if we can, we just need a way to be sure to not have openjdk as dependency in other package. Especially for already released openSUSE. Otherwise it could become a mess on end-user side. Otherwise, yeap, I always get non working things with openjdk, and mainly most of "business/proprio" software ask you to have a sun/oracle jvm. But I'm not deep inside the java world. -- Bruno Friedmann Ioda-Net Sàrl www.ioda-net.ch openSUSE Member & Ambassador GPG KEY : D5C9B751C4653227 irc: tigerfoot -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org