Andrew Overholt wrote: > * Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> [2008-07-31 05:20]: >> Caolan McNamara wrote: >>> Given that we've got openjdk on most platforms. Would it make sense to >>> package our java things so that the gcj ahead-of-time compiled stuff is >>> packaged into separate subrpms. e.g. taking hsqldb as a random example >>> the package takes 3696k but the aot /usr/lib/gcj/hsqldb contents takes >>> 2928k of that and it's unused except for the java-is-gij case right ? >>> >>> We typically end up with openjdk installed due to the web plugin and >>> then with java-1.5.0-gcj + dependencies installed due to >>> the /usr/bin/rebuild-gcj-db and .so requires of the java packaging >>> guidelines when installing any additional java package. >>> >>> I'd like to e.g. have the option of just having openjdk installed and >>> not have to haul around the 45Megs in my /usr/lib/gcj dir >> Sure, but it's potentially a lot of work to make the change, and how >> would the people who are running gcj know that they need to download >> the gcj ahead-of-time compiled stuff to get decent performance? > > Yeah, one of the reasons we didn't do this to begin with was because RPM > has no notion of Suggests or Recommends like dpkg does. Debian went > this route, but I've seen reports of people not realizing they needed to > install the associated -gcj package. Me too. "My Eclipse is godawful slow," etc... Andrew. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
