Le samedi 04 juin 2011 Ã 10:46 +1000, Chris Jones a Ãcrit : > But whilst installing the Java web-browser plugin, I observed that > it's not its dependancies that suck up the size but rather the > physical java packages themselves. And I just don't understand what > makes Java packages so big and bulky? I mean, I can install The GIMP > (a full image editing package) in under 10MB. Because SUN Java is not modular, so every time a SUN dev thought he had coded the next big thing he stuffed it in the jvm itself because there is *no* other reliable Java deployment method. It's supposed to be fixed by Oracle in Java 8 (missed the Java 7 boat) -- Nicolas Mailhot -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel