On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:24:35PM -0500, Ean R . Schuessler wrote: > On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 11:11:43PM -0300, Julio wrote: > > Can a virtual package have a version (to be set by a 'real' package that > > implements it)? If so, it'd be useful to have java-virtual-machine packages > > to set their jdk-compliance versions (1.0, 1.1, 1.2) when installing (or > > being set by update-alternatives), since it's better to bind some packages > > on virtual machines of specific versions. > > I agree with this concept as well. > > also. can we make it "jvm", instead of "java-virtual-machine"? > > jvm-sun-1.1 > jvm-sun-1.2 > jvm-iso-? > > It would probably be prudent to eliminate the word "java" from every > Debian package name, description, etc. since it is a trademark first and > a language second.
FWIW, I like the idea too. :) The netscape package situation was a mess, and the virtual packages helps out immensly. I would like to know which packages are needed to do java developement versus java runtime -- and the virtual packages did a slick enough job with a similar problem and netscape. :) -- Seth Arnold | http://www.willamette.edu/~sarnold/ Hate spam? See http://maps.vix.com/rbl/ for help Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!
