[25987] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.3.11: /usr/bin/java
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Tue Aug 24 19:22:36 2004
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2004-08-24 at 18:51, Greg Hudson wrote:
> (I'm assuming (3) would mean adding crud to the athena-ws postinstall
> scriptlet, unless I'm wrong and j2sdk uses the alternatives mechanism
> itself.)
You are correct -- j2sdk does not use alternatives.
> (2) would require uninstalling gcc-java, which seems like an unfortunate
> loss of functionality, although perhaps it's functionality no one is
> using. I don't see a compelling reason to do (3), especially since it
> would increase space usage a lot. So I think I'd like to do (1), absent
> arguments I haven't thought of yet.
It looks like j2sdk would only use about 36 MB of additional space
(remember that we can remove j2re if we install j2sdk).
Another argument in favor of (3) is that it would be more consistent
with Solaris, where we install the native sdk packages, which
contain appropriate symlinks in /usr/bin.
But, another argument against (3) is that, like j2re, it installs
into a version-dependent directory, which would be a bit of a
nuisance to maintain.
Bob
