Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 10:24:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Johnson <freebsd@spatula.net> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: ports and /usr/local/java Message-ID: <20020816101811.B29093-100000@turing.morons.org>
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Ok, here I go rocking the boat.
If you look through ports you'll see a ton of p5 modules that neatly drop
themselves in well-known locations. This makes installing dependencies
for perl stuff quite easy.
Unfortunately, we don't have such a thing for java apps and classes since
these things aren't tightly controlled by anyone, but I think it would be
desirable for us to be able to do dependencies to make installation of
java packages easier.
So what do folks think about creating some kind of /usr/local/java
hierarchy to manage this stuff? Maybe with some categories similar to the
categories established in ports. I'm thinking of maybe something like
this:
/usr/local/java/
/usr/local/java/contrib/packageName/{the whole package}
/usr/local/java/site_java/{category}/{symlinks to jar files in contrib}
/usr/local/java/makeClasspath
I'll probably do something like this for myself regardless, but it seems
like something like this could be beneficial to everyone, not just me.
Any thoughts?
Nick
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