On 12/21/2016 08:38 AM, Eric Evans wrote: > I don't really have any opinions on Oracle per say, but Cassandra is a > Free Software project and I would prefer that we not depend on > commercial software, (and that's kind of what we have here, an > implicit dependency).
Just a bit of clarification. The debian packages depend on OpenJDK as the first preference, then the meta-package that may be satisfied by a custom rolled Oracle-based deb: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/debian/control#L14 I dug through the pseudo packages that RHEL/CentOS provide in the vendor OpenJDK rpms and selected 'jre' when I committed: https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/redhat/cassandra.spec#L23 In both cases, an install of packaged deb or rpm will pull in OpenJDK by default, unless the user goes out of his/her way to override this. -- Kind regards, Michael
