On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 2:01 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > One complaint is that it subverts something obviously intended to be a > per-process choice into a per-machine configuration. What do you do if you, > or different users, need to simultaneously run different versions of JVM's - > something that seems likely during any transition where you'd want to keep > the old version running until you have thoroughly tested its replacement? You set PATH and JAVA_HOME, just like you did before. What the alternatives system gives you is a sane way to make one the default, which you need to have it integrated with other components of the operating system. > But, given that the alternatives structure is there even with its > limitations, the real issue is that there have been long periods of time > when you could not find a java-sun-compat package documented to work with > the current fedora version and that's not something you want to set up by > hand. I don't see a lot of value in continuing to discuss this, given that in the near future all supported Fedora releases (8 and 9) will have built-in very complete Free Java implementations. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
