On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 4:27 PM, Guillaume ALAUX <guillaume@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello, > > Guillaume here (packager of that "piece of crap" java-common). Yes it is pretty crappy. >> symlinks created by the jre* packages at install time, without any >> package tracking them. > > Yes, that is the point of script archlinux-java [3]. It's crappy mainly because of the whole bunch of symlinks being *untracked*. > Also, this has been publicly discussed back in May [5] > where very few people cared to give feedback. Sorry I don't follow every discussion on the mailing list... I would never have joined one about java, really; it just so happens this one is so *wrong*... To be sure, I do appreciate your effort, Guillaume. No one likes to deal with this java crap. I don't have strong objections against your general approach, only this particular packaging practice. Let's improve it.
