Les Mikesell wrote:
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Not sure, but I bet the "shim" is the java-sun-compat package that
lets
you install the Sun RPM, then sets up alternatives and other
symlinks to
make the expected incantations work. That is not a nosrc package,
though it may have no actual source. It depends on the Sun RPM from
java.sun.com.
Yeah, that's what was under discussion, or at least it's what I
thought Les wanted.
I know Les mentioned the nosrc rpms in the same email as he
complained that Fedora wasn't shipping something that he felt was
necessary for java-on-Fedora. So I thought it best to have that
clarified.
Yes the java-sun-compat package is the missing piece. Whether it's
actually included in fedora or not isn't particularly important, but
its location should be documented and there have been long intervals
of time when no jpackage.org support existed for current fedora
revisions. My impression was that this was intentional on fedora's
part but perhaps that was mistaken.
I think we need to re-gage this after we're a bit into F9 general
availability. The open source alternatives to Java have gotten much,
much better this go round, and many of the early adopters I've talked to
have said their java issues have gone completely away. We need to figure
out what role proprietary java will now play in the lives of our users.
--CJD
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