Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:05:08 -0400
From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Pushing for default jdk / jre to become java/diablo-j{dk,re}
Message-ID: <20070317210507.GA64762@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <45FC4E85.7040005@u.washington.edu>
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On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:24:37PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hello all, > I was just wondering if there was any way where we -- as a group -- > could push to make the default jdk / jre the diablo packaged versions > because frankly I don't want a system to assume that I want to compile > the 1.5 jdk / jre from scratch by first installing the linux v1.4.2 of > the jdk, and having to go through the long and arduous process of > compiling java, for little or no benefit (the only benefit would be for > different architectures that aren't available in diablo-jdk/-jre, like > sparc, powerpc). In that case one would be required to do the above process. > > It would be nice to add this in though so someone doesn't > accidentally take all that time and disk space compiling all for naught. Isn't it already the default (except on current where it does not run)? Kris
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