Ben Burton wrote:
IIRC the issue of automatically including every jar in /usr/share/java has already been hashed out on this list and decided to be a bad idea (too much overhead, poor control over conflicts, etc), thought I could be wrong.
I did on September 2 make the following suggestion:
Java libraries packages *may* add a sympolic link from /usr/share/java/ext/packagename[-extraname].jar to /usr/share/java/packagename[-extraname]-fullversion.jar.
In 2.1 Virtual machines: If a virtual machine has a mechanism to search the jars in one or more "extensions directories", it *should* use /usr/share/java/ext as the default such directory.
In 2.2 Java compilers: If a Java compiler has a mechanism to search the the jars of one or more "extensions directories", it *should* use /usr/share/java/ext as the default such directory.
