How to install OpenJDK6 on F17

[Fernando Lozano]

Hi Andrew,

>> I find this design decision very odd, exactly for the reasons you
>> mentioned. Java 7 is, to my knowledge, far from universally supported. I
>> would have waited for at least another release or two before phasing out
>> Java 6.
> We did think about it, but OpenJDK 6 is going to be EOL'd this year, with
> a complete cessation of updates.
>
> Andrew.

I can understand you wish to compile everything using OpenJDK7, but why 
don't keep OpenJDK6 on the repos as an option, just like you did with 
java-1.5.0-gcj ?

Can I --force installing OpenJDK6 packages from F16 on F17? Won't this 
mess up with OpenJDK7?


[]s, Fernando Lozano