[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:21:32PM +0100, Trygve Laugstøl wrote:
>> Phil asked if the directory should be "java" and that what what I 
>> originally wanted too, but Sun uses /usr/java as a symlink to the latest 
>> java, just like /usr/jdk/latest.
>>
>> So this is what I want:
>>
>> /opt/csw/jdk/jdk1.5.0_16
>> /opt/csw/jdk/instances/jdk1.5.0 -> ../jdk1.5.0_16
>>
>> /opt/csw/jdk/jdk1.6.0_10
>> /opt/csw/jdk/instances/jdk1.6.0 -> ../jdk1.5.0_10
> 
> Hmm. I dont think it is nice to "burn" two top-level directories, one for
> jdk and one for kre.
> 
> Why dont you like having a combined directory, 
> 
> /opt/csw/java/1.5.0_16
> 
> that has both the jre and jdk of that version under it?

Because Sun uses /usr/java as a complete JDK isntallation (or was it JRE?..)

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Trygve