diablo-jdk not installing correctly

Charlie Kester corky1951 at comcast.net
Mon Apr 26 01:55:49 UTC 2010


On Sun 25 Apr 2010 at 17:57:27 PDT Jonathan Chen wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:34:19PM -0400, herbey zepeda wrote:
>
>[...]
>> I am concerned because according to the literature diablo is supposed to
>> be the maintained jdk for FreeBSD. And I realize that I am having to
>> download version 7.1 when we are already on version 8.0 of FreeBSD to make
>> java work
>>
>> My question is: is Java in FreeBSD an experimental/academic package? Should
>> I rather go with the linux compatibility way?
>
>There has been no movement with the diablo-jdk for ages; java/openjdk6
>is better maintained and would be a better choice.

Maybe so, but it seems some ports are calling out diablo-jdk as a
dependency.  I know I didn't explicitly choose to install it.

I should probably rtfm, but is there a way to force ports to use openjdk
instead?



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