On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 17:03, Jan Schulz wrote: > sh. bash in this case, as I have not enough knowledge to make sure > thats 'sh-only'.
Well, we can count on bash being there so that's ok. > After having this discussion, because they are not 'similar enough' to > rely on the alternative system. Well, they *could be* similar enough if we specify exactly what Debian expects a JAVA_HOME setup to provide. > /usr/bin/alternative (or /usr/lib/jre-alternative/) isn't save to be > caleld, when you have a requirement on one or two special VMs and then > you can't expect that this alternatives are pointing to them. The packages of those special VMs would need to provide wrappers that adapt their behavior to the Debian JAVA_HOME standard. > Consider: kaffe, sunVM, sablevm and gij. User has installed kaffe and > gij, the alternative system has put gij as /usr/bin/java. App runs on > kaffe and sunVM. App calls /usr/bin/java (or /usr/lib/jre/bin/java). > Crash... Tell me again how findjava fixes that problem? -- _____________________________________________________________________ Ean Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chief Technology Officer 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
