* Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> [2013-11-19 03:35]: > Quoting Jerry James (2013-11-18 16:54:28) > > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Stanislav Ochotnicky > > <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I believe OpenJDK maintainers will agree that automatically detecting if java or > > > java-headless is supposed to be required is not really feasible. There's too > > > many variables at play. > > > > Then how are we maintainers supposed to determine if our packages > > require full java, or just java-headless? "Needs X or audio" is too > > vague. Is there a list of packages and/or classes that are present in > > full java but not in java-headless? Or some kind of explicit set of > > guidelines I can use to examine my packages to see which they need? > > You can use following Oracle article as a starting point[1]. But maybe OpenJDK > maintainers can provide better alternative. Generally though there are *very* > few packages in Fedora that would require full java. > Another possible resource is checking the Debian package repo -- they have had headless/full separated for a while (maybe even from the start?): e.g. Azureus needs full: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/azureus and ant needs headless: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/ant Of course it is no guarantee that Debian is perfect -- if we find any known issues, we can report back accordingly to help improve their set up too. Deepak > > [1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/headless-136834.html > > > -- > Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> > Software Engineer - Developer Experience > > PGP: 7B087241 > Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
