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Shyamal Prasad wrote: [...] | Debian executables "must not depend on environment variables to get | reasonable defaults" is the actual statement. [...] | You can't require that a user sets JAVA_HOME for a default | installation of a java application to run in a reasonable | manner. That's all. As some one who has lived in csh hell I *love* | this policy. | | In my specific case, if JAVA_HOME is not set then the Emacs packages | for JDEE currently don't work reasonably. Many thanks for the reply and the links; I will read those. I can see where the policy is going, I just wonder how practical it is. If I am not mistaken, the Eclipse executable also depends upon JAVA_HOME being set correctly.
Regards, - -- Barry Hawkins All Things Computed site: www.alltc.com weblog: www.yepthatsme.com
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