On 31/12/12 21:40, Eric Fernandez wrote: > 2012/12/31 Allan McRae <[email protected]>: >> >> It has been there for years. >> >> Allan >> >> > > Well, I discussed the issue there: > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=137555 in March 2012. I am > absolutely positive that there was an issue if JAVA_HOME was not > previously set (and java-environment had not been installed), and that > source /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh was fixing it. Any other idea this was > causing it? I'll try to see if I can reproduce it on a virtual > environment. > > Eric
Many Arch PKGBUILDs use JAVA_HOME, and all Arch packages are build in a minimal chroot that will require java to be installed. There is only one Arch package that sources anything to get JAVA_HOME and that is because it unsets it first (for some unknown reason...). Allan
