Ville Skyttä wrote:
On Tuesday 25 March 2008, Andrew Overholt wrote:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Java
All of the questions and comments and TODOs that were on the page have been taken care of. I'm sure there are going to be questions and complaints, but we now feel it's in a state worthy of first draft presentation.
I'd like to draw some attention to my question about why to install the versioned jars. Nicolas is trying to help me understand, but I'm either correct in that they should just be dropped or too dumb so far to get it (in which case I think it needs a real explanation in the guidelines):
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-March/msg02346.html
Yes, I've struggled to understand the same decision in the JDK packages. I wonder why the extra level of versioning is required:
$ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-icedtea lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-12-11 14:36 /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-icedtea -> java-1.7.0-icedtea-1.7.0.0
Nicolas, do you know the rationale? To enable parallel-installation of multiple versions of the same JDK, perhaps?
Tom