On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 7:43 PM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 11 May 2010 16:04:29 Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 11 May 2010 22:01, geoffrey mendelson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On May 11, 2010, at 2:52 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > >> Ubuntu packages three Javas, but only the Sun Java has any worth. The > > >> other two only serve to mess up Sun Java installs. Stay away from > > >> them. > > > > > > Ouch, that brings back another UBUNTU problem. It does not install Java > > > (are most programs) in /usr/bin. It installs them in /usr/bin under > > > another name, or eleswhere. Then it links /etc/alternatives/<name> to > > > them. Then it links /usr/bin/<name> to /etc/alternatives/<name>. > > > > That's actually part of the inheritance from Debian. Debian tends to > > have a long history behind most of their decisions so this system > > makes sense there. I'm not sure how different is Ubuntu from it > > though. > > > > Last time I checked (Debian 3.1 or so), Debian did not take the > /etc/alternatives system to its natural conclusion though. I noticed that > when > I wanted to install postfix on what was then eskimo.iglu.org.il, I had to > uninstall qmail (which I wanted to get rid of eventually), because the > /usr/sbin/sendmail file conflicted between the two packages. Later on, when > I > worked on Fedora, I was able to install Postfix as well as sendmail (the > Fedora default) because I could play with the symlinks in /etc/alternatives > and other places. It's possible it was fixed in Debian since then. > qmail was not packaged in Debian since it was non-free, not sure about its status nowadays. If you install something yourself or from an unofficial package you can not blame Debian for its failures. Baruch
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