_prefer_jre is environmental variable, which once set to true causes javapackages-tools to prefer JRE over JDK when choosing JVM to use. _prefer_jre was most useful in multi-JVM scenario. For example when there was JDK 1.5 and JRE 1.7 installed, javapackages-tools would choose JDK 1.5 by default. Setting _prefer_jre=true would allow more recent JRE 1.7 to be used instead. Currently in Fedora there is only one Java implementation. Moreover, with Java 9 distinction between JDK and JRE becomes less clear. Therefore I propose to deprecate _prefer_jre environmental variable and remove it in a future release of javapackages-tools, in a year or so. Any objections or comments? -- Mikolaj Izdebski Software Engineer, Red Hat IRC: mizdebsk -- java-devel mailing list java-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/java-devel
