I was curious if anybody had given thought to setting up a Java environment script of some sort that would set up JAVA_HOME and CLASSPATH depending on the alternitives set.
I think this is actually a small thing Debian itself lacks. Some other distros I have used, such as Gentoo, provide a env.d folder in /etc for including environment script per-package. Has anybody put any thought into this for Debian and came to a conclusion why we would or wouldn't implement it? I can visualize a line in the default .bash_profile which sources /etc/environment, which would be auto generated by an update-environment command from all the scripts contained in /etc/env.d. A Java environment might be like /etc/env.d/java -> /etc/alternatives/java-environment /etc/alternatives/java-environment -> /usr/lib/j2se/1.4/environment Alternatives for another JVM might point the script elsewhere. The script would be responsible for setting up JAVA_HOME. Perhaps it could also source another script that sets up CLASSPATH in some way. Just floating some ideas! Thanks -- Jerry Haltom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Feedback Plus, Inc.
