Re: [Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

2015-02-22 Thread Vladimír Čunát
On 02/22/2015 07:59 AM, Chad Joan wrote: Is there a way for me to discover other useful configuration options like this? AFAIK the only complete way is just to read the source expressions of what you're interested in, e.g. in this case:

Re: [Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

2015-02-22 Thread Chad Joan
I see. Thank you for being up-front about it. That link is helpful; I've been reading a thing or two in all-packages.nix as needed, but I didn't realize these options would be defined there. This really reminds me of Gentoo USE flags. I can't blame anyone for not wanting to go around

Re: [Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

2015-02-21 Thread Chad Joan
Hi Eike, That worked wonderfully! Thank you. I have updated the aforementioned wiki page's Java instructions to include this icedtea option. https://nixos.org/wiki/Enable_Browser_Plugins Is there a way for me to discover other useful configuration options like this? - Chad On Sun, Feb 15,

Re: [Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

2015-02-21 Thread Chad Joan
Hi Anderson, I have been using the Nix Modifying Packages document to help me install a more recent kernel (work in process still...). It doesn't seem to offer anything like Gentoo's virtual packages, though. Thanks for trying! - Chad On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Anderson Torres

Re: [Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

2015-02-15 Thread Eike
Hello Chad, Chad Joan writes: In my first attempt, I tried to follow the wiki advice, including the jre = true suggestion, but with ignoring the suggestion to download Oracle JDK in advance. Predictably, when I ran nixos-rebuild switch, it failed and complained about needing Oracle JDK to

[Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

2015-02-14 Thread Chad Joan
Hello! Is it possible to make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK? If so, how? I have read this article: https://nixos.org/wiki/Enable_Browser_Plugins Here is my configuration.nix: http://pastebin.com/hA2eV7TM In my first attempt, I tried to follow the wiki advice, including the

Re: [Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

2015-02-14 Thread Anderson Torres
2015-02-14 21:06 GMT-02:00 Chad Joan chadj...@gmail.com: Hello! Is it possible to make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK? If so, how? I have read this article: https://nixos.org/wiki/Enable_Browser_Plugins Here is my configuration.nix: http://pastebin.com/hA2eV7TM In my