On 2017-06-20 20:07, nicolas.mailhot@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi,
Frankly, the proposed change seems a great way to accumulate technical debt at a rapid pace, by helping apps to specify various legacy or proprietary Java variants, and postponing taking into account openjdk changes indefinitely.
Why do you think so? The proposal doesn't say anything like that. It
doesn't let apps specify their Java. The setting for Java applications
will still be global.
Moreover, Fedora doesn't ship legacy or proprietary Java variants.
That's more or less what the proprietary unixes did till the whole house of cards collapsed under the weight of long overdue migration needs.
IIRC the whole alternative system already lets an app specify a specific java version and producer (at least it did in JPackage time). What it does not let people do is to pretend an app is java-version and java-producer agnostic when it isn't.
%jpackage_script generated launcher scripts don't let an app specify
java version/provider and that will stay the same.
Michael
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