On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 04:21 +0100, Ondřej Kučera wrote: > Hello, > > I was wondering - why jre/jdk packages conflict with java-gcj-compat? > Unless I missed something there are no file conflicts (since jre and > jdk are in /opt) and I think the rest (switching between the > environments when necessary) could be done be (re)setting of > environment variables (such as $PATH and $JAVA_HOME). Or am I > overlooking something? > > Being a java developer (at least from time to time) I am in need of Sun > implementation (actually even of version 6), on the other hand on > x86_64 the webplugin from gcc-gcj in combination with java-gcj-compat is > the only way to run some applets (e. g. those that need security > certificates; for other applets only gcc-gcj might be enough). > > Ondřej You could install gcc-gcj and symlink the web plugin in the right directory without installing java-gcj-compat. The reason why we have it conflicting is because we want to have only one complete java solution installed on a system.
