Am 23.02.2013 18:22, schrieb Timothy Murphy: > Reindl Harald wrote: > >>> Is there an openjdk JRE plugin for Firefox 19 under Fedora 18? >>> Or have I misunderstood Firefox setup in some way? >>> >>> All the test programs to see if Java is working >>> (eg http://www.java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp) >>> seem to look for Sun Java > >> "icedtea-web" is the package with the plugin > > Thanks very much. > I had forgotten that. > But wouldn't it be simpler for this to appear among the openjdk packages? > Or even as a dependency? why? virtually nobody needs the browser-plugin and if you read the security news of the last few months it would be a dmaned bad idea to install this crap on every computer as dependency because it is a useless security hole dependencies are there to make sure packages have all they need installed any ANY DEPENDENCY which pulls more than needed is simply broken because it would it make impossible to have setups like mine below where the OS needs 6.3 GB while VMware Workstation and ZendStudio are 1.5 GB from this and so my Fedora itself needs 4.8 GB - guess how fast dist upgrades on my machines are running and why they have no dependencie-problems since years.................... /dev/md1 ext4 29G 6,3G 23G 22% / /dev/md0 ext4 485M 38M 447M 8% /boot /dev/md2 ext4 3,6T 1,7T 2,0T 46% /mnt/data
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