On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > Hello, > > "java" would be the preferred JRE in Fedora. The package would have no > > content, but it would have Requires on preferred Fedora JRE, currently > > java-1.8.0-openjdk. This could be easily changed as default JRE changes. > > The same is for other binary subpackages of "java", respectively. > > > > All system packages would require subpackages of "java" as they do now > > (unless there is good reason not to). Users that install "java" would > > get latest JRE, which would be updated to new major versions as they > > become default. Older JDKs would not be removed during update (unless > > there is no maintainer and they are obsoleted as currently), > > AFAIK nothing obsoletes a package just because it is orphaned… > > but users > > could remove them with "yum autoremove", unless something requires older > > JDK or they installed it explicitly. > … but most won’t run (yum autoremove). In effect, the vast majority of users upgrading from a previous Fedora version would end up with two JDKs installed, one of them an old, unmaintained RPM. dnf has autoremove on by default. Zbyszek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
