David Walluck wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
>
> > I've just packaged ant 1.2, required for building many java
> > applications. Here are some comments and interrogations i have about
> > java integration into cooker.
> > - where to place the jar files ? I've chosen the classical
> > /usr/lib/{name} location, but debian people have chosen a centralised
> > location /usr/share/java for example
> > - what virtual package have we ? It has been suggested jdk and jre along
> > with version number. But jikes, for exemple isn't a complete jdk. So
> > maybe we could have javacompiler too.
> >
>
> I prefer /usr/share/java. It makes more sense to have a share dir, even
> though all these apps come with their own jars. You'll still probably end
> up with 100 copies of the same jar file, but that's the way it
> is. Mandrake certainly needs more java support. jdk (IBM hopefully) is the
> bare minimum. java.apache.org and jakarta.apache.org should have all their
> stuff packaged as well.
Ok for a shared directory, but why in /usr/share then ? I'm not a FHS
guru, but if this correspond to the %{_datadir} rpm macro, i guess its
purpose is to contains data. Java archives files are in fact both the
executable and the libraries. So they could be in /usr/bin/java or
/usr/lib/java.
Is there any official Mandrake opinion on this ?
--
Guillaume Rousse
Murphy's law : If anything can go wrong, it will.
O'Tool's commentary : Murphy was an optimist.
