Philip Brown wrote: > On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:56:40PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote: >> ... >> What about JDK/JRE separation? JDK includes a JRE but >> essentially I don't want to extract the JRE from there >> as this is mainly asking for trouble. Should we just >> distribute the JDK then? > > ?!?!?!? > > Personally, I think we serve our users well, by splitting out jre. > > I would guess that a vast majority of people who "need java", actualy > just specifically need the JRE. > > > Unless the jdk addds only a trivial amount of extra bytes (and I'm pretty > sure it's not trivial! :-) seems like the best thing to do is split em. > I dont see what this "trouble" would be that you reference. Perhaps you > could explain further.
I agree with Phil here, we need two packages. I would never use JDK or JRE package that has been modified by upstream packages, just see the just that Debian tries deliver with their "java" packages. -- Trygve _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
