Hi Shawn, * Shawn Walker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 29/06/07, Glynn Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Doug Scott wrote: > >> Back to the Java front. I think that it would be a mistake not to > >> include the jre in the base, though the jre size on Solaris does concern > >> me. > >> > >> Doug > >> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> du -hs /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0/jre > >> 124M /usr/jdk/jdk1.6.0/jre > > > >That's certainly a large compromise if we did want to include it. > > A good compromise would be a way to make it so the browser could tie > into the packaging system / repository to install missing plugins for > java, flash, etc. on demand. > > If it's integrated, that will be far less painful. > > The user should not have to search in package manager ala synaptic, etc.
Why not? They have to on any other opensource operating system/distribution. Sun java is not installed by default on ubuntu, debian, fedora, rhel, or suse (I think, novell might ship it by default now). The only distribution I know that does include it by default is slackware. Windows doesn't (naturally) though MacOS X does include it (well at least some versions of Java). As long as we make it simple and intuitive to add via the network, I don't consider this a pain point. If we can work out how to include it by default given size constraints, then fine but I don't think we *have* to. Cheers, Glenn _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
