ports/151923: [patch] java/openjdk6: free and native openjdk bootstrap

Jung-uk Kim jkim at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 3 23:34:26 UTC 2010


On Wednesday 03 November 2010 06:43 pm, David DEMELIER wrote:
> I made this like pkgsrc does, pkg_add -r openjdk6 pulls some
> dependencies, I agree with you pkg_add'ing the prebuilt package is
> possible but some people don't like this.

If you are building it, you will need the dependencies sooner or later 
anyway.  I don't see your point. :-/

> If you run -current or -stable packages could be outdated too, here
> using a bootstrap will build depends from ports and openjdk from
> ports without any binaries and without any non-free binaries.

What made you think that your bootstrap binaries won't be outdated?  
In fact, I cannot shake the feeling that it may rot even faster than 
prebuilt packages.

Jung-uk Kim


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