F22 System Wide Change: Legacy implementations of the Java platform in Fedora

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Fri Feb 27 12:07:32 UTC 2015


On 02/27/2015 12:04 PM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 02/27/2015 10:47 AM, Aleksandar Kurtakov wrote:
>
>> If we want to be sure that this legacy jdk will not interfere with
>> the system JDK let it not provide anything via alternatives. That
>> way people that want it can use it by playing with PATH/JAVA_HOME
>> (just like they do with other JVMs).
>
> That's right.
>

One more thing - I'm not sure what everything may break by doing so (dangling symlinks or similar 
issues in the package).

J.



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