On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Matej Cepl <mcepl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2009-04-06, 02:37 GMT, David Nalley wrote: >> 1. Patch source to point to the library installed on the system >> rather >> than the bundled >> OR >> 2. symlink from the bundled location to the system library. > > Ask Java folks ... some applications have even Sun JRE included > in the release tarball (ehm, Openfire ;-)) but IIRC (and I am not > a Java maintainer), the option no. 1 is The Right One. > > Thinking about it, it looks to me like you are de facto replacing > Requires interface between packages with symlink, which seems to > me like a bad proposition. > > Matěj > As a Java folk, yeah you tend to get all kinds of third-party jars bundled with any given application. In Eclipse plugin land (where it is common practice to bundle all required third-party libs as an actual Eclipse plugin) we tend to go with option 2, symlink the system lib into the Eclipse plugin. We have a special command to do it "build-jar-repository" that lives in the jpackage-utils package. See the eclipse-epic and eclipse-phpeclipse packages for examples. -- Mat Booth www.matbooth.co.uk -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
