[csw-maintainers] Java... again!

[Trygve Laugstøl]

Philip Brown wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:56:40PM +0100, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
>> ...
>> What about JDK/JRE separation? JDK includes a JRE but
>> essentially I don't want to extract the JRE from there
>> as this is mainly asking for trouble. Should we just
>> distribute the JDK then?
> 
> ?!?!?!? 
> 
> Personally, I think we serve our users well, by splitting out jre.
> 
> I would guess that a vast majority of people who "need java", actualy
> just specifically need the JRE.
> 
> 
> Unless the jdk addds only a trivial amount of extra bytes (and I'm pretty
> sure it's not trivial! :-) seems like the best thing to do is split em.
> I dont see what this "trouble" would be that you reference. Perhaps you
> could explain further.

I agree with Phil here, we need two packages. I would never use JDK or 
JRE package that has been modified by upstream packages, just see the 
just that Debian tries deliver with their "java" packages.

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