Ric Moore wrote:
I'm used to beating on alternatives now... it's a wonder it can't be
easier though. Well, not really, every distro out there has some unique
formula for where things are put and that is what kills the spread of
Linux for Joe LunchBucket as well as Admins. Hopefully, --one day--,
there will be a 'Grand Unified Theory' for Linux. "I have a dream!" Ric
The problem is that locations are _supposed_ to be arbitrary and permit
the co-existence of multiple versions, and even though every developer
almost certainly has his own paths to private versions of things, the
first thing they do to simplify setup is to pretend that no one else
will need that - or at least not with anything packaged.
p/s Thanks to everyone for their responses. I'm not a complete newbie,
but this java thing has a lot of trees in the forest. I just want it to
work correctly and not have an update blow it up (or my meddling,
either!)
There's not a real good way to handle things where you can't include
versioning in the package/paths and permit multiples unless you just
embed the dependent jvm in the RPM package of each app. Don't laugh -
the openfire (xmpp server) RPM does exactly that...
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Les Mikesell
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