F21 System Wide Change: Headless Java

[Stanislav Ochotnicky]

Quoting Toshio Kuratomi (2013-11-18 17:08:12)
> On Nov 15, 2013 4:09 AM, "Stanislav Ochotnicky" <sochotnicky at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Quoting Jaroslav Reznik (2013-11-15 12:28:11)
> > > * (optional) Mass-change spec files that have "Requires: java" to
> "Requires:
> > > java-headless"
> > >
> > > Other developers:
> > > * Modify spec files to have "Requires: java-headless" instead of
> "Requires:
> > > java"
> 
> Could you say a few words about why a java-headless package was chosen
> instead of java-x11 (as an example name)?
> 

I believe the term was chosen because it's widely used term in Java world.
Oracle uses that term in official documentation as well[1]. Last but not least,
Debian uses that term as well and I see no reason to be different just for the
sake of it.


[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/articles/javase/headless-136834.html

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