Ben Burton wrote:
- *All* jars be placed in the optional jar directory, this being /usr/share/java as it is now.
Ok. We could still discuss if application-specific JARs, e.g. for Tomcat the Jasper JSP engine, should be put there or in /usr/share/app/lib/ as probably nobody ever wants to include these classes to the classpath.
- Standard jars that should be automatically included in the classpath must be symlinks from /usr/share/java/auto (or whatever we call the standard jar directory it) into /usr/share/java.
Basically yes, but IMHO this should be the decision of the local admin and not of the package maintainer. How could he know ig his package contains "standard" jars? This means that no package should automatically put jars or symlinks there. This would be /etc/java/default-classpath/ in my proposal.
-- Stefan Gybas
