java again really

[Karl Larsen]

Les Mikesell wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>>> Matthew Saltzman wrote:
>>>>>     With this addition my jedit was installed fast and it works 
>>>>> right. I needs to be added to the document.
>>>> No, what needs to be added to the document is instructions on how 
>>>> to use
>>>> the alternatives facility to get these links set up properly.
>>>>
>>>> I can understand how Karl or anyone else might be led to fix these
>>>> things up by hand, as above, but it's better to use the tool designed
>>>> for the job.  But in order to do so, one needs to know what that tool
>>>> is.  It's not as common knowledge as it ought to be.
>>>>
>>>> man alternatives
>>> Do you think this manual page will help someone who doesn't have a 
>>> jpackage-style installation or compat package?  What is needed is 
>>> for that to be included in the disto.  Or at least full 
>>> documentation on all of the symlinks needed to construct one by hand.
>> ----
>> if this were the military, you just volunteered to do it.
>
> I'd really like to know why the jpackage project appears to have given 
> up on fedora.  If the experts can't do it - or have reasons not to, 
> there's not much hope for anyone else.
>
    I would like to know what a jpackage is. It is a project to do what? 
Showing my lack of understanding on something important to java I expect.


Karl


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