Hey, On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Matthias Klose wrote: > Ben Maurer schrieb: >> Many users need to use java5 because it is used by other people they >> work with. Expecting them to figure out how to make it the default JRE >> by editing lots of text files is not reasonable. >> >> Maybe the easiest way to do this would be to have a way to (easily) >> *uninstall* gcj. That would allow us to still have sun java lower on >> each of the priority lists. > > you can try this yourself. it may be possible. going this way means that > free software runs using non-free software, or all software needing > java needs to be moved to multiverse, which is not going to happen.
There are many people who want/need to run the official Java packages and are willing to sacrifice a bit of Free as in Freedom to do so. >> Whatever the solution, I think it should be possible to have the sun JRE >> as one's default Java environment by only installing a set of packages > > and you want the same for each other java runtime. that's not going to > work. further, we don't support sun-java5 in main, so the best solution > is to prefer the supported option. What about a solution such as this: Every package that installes a JRE has a package called default-java-X for example, default-java-gcj, default-java-sun. The packages conflict with each other, so only one can be installed. Wouldn't this solution allow people to *easily* switch the default JRE? -b -- sun-java5-jdk should ask to set itself as the default upon installation https://launchpad.net/bugs/59987 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
