Pushing for default jdk / jre to become java/diablo-j{dk,re}

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Mar 17 21:05:10 UTC 2007


On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:24:37PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hello all,
> 	I was just wondering if there was any way where we -- as a group -- 
> could push to make the default jdk / jre the diablo packaged versions 
> because frankly I don't want a system to assume that I want to compile 
> the 1.5 jdk / jre from scratch by first installing the linux v1.4.2 of 
> the jdk, and having to go through the long and arduous process of 
> compiling java, for little or no benefit (the only benefit would be for 
> different architectures that aren't available in diablo-jdk/-jre, like 
> sparc, powerpc). In that case one would be required to do the above process.
> 
> 	It would be nice to add this in though so someone doesn't 
> 	accidentally take all that time and disk space compiling all for naught.

Isn't it already the default (except on current where it does not
run)?

Kris


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