On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 04:21:11PM +0300, Marius Andreiana wrote: > How can Fedora work out of the box with apps requiring env variables like > JAVA_HOME, M2_HOME ? > > Today, even though fedora provides java & maven, one still has to manually > set these vars. Should Fedora java/maven packages set these (e.g. by files > in /etc/profile.d/), while still allowing users to overwrite them in > ~/.bash_profile? I guess so, but seems better to avoid needing the variables in the first place. It seems that JAVA_HOME is not required, provided you are using the default Fedora package. (At least, that is my impression from a small test I just did.) Rich. PS. yikes, Java is so verbose ... -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
