> Default in what sense? I don't think any Java anything, or even any web > browser that could use such a plugin, is installed by default in a base > installation. I assume you mean one of the desktop tasks?
Yea, possibly along with OpenJDK. > Java web applets are relatively rare these days in my experience, at least > compared to Flash. I run into them, but not daily. I absolutely agree with what you said. I was saying this more from a new user perspective, he bumps into an applet and he's just lost, might even think he doesn't even have a JVM/JRE or what a JVM/JRE is for that matter. I was just wondering because after all, icedtea6-plugin is a very small package. Adnan On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:31 AM, Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote: > Adnan Hodzic <[email protected]> writes: > >> It may be blunt question, but I was wondering why is "icedtea6-plugin" >> not installed by default in Squeeze? > > Default in what sense? I don't think any Java anything, or even any web > browser that could use such a plugin, is installed by default in a base > installation. I assume you mean one of the desktop tasks? > > Java web applets are relatively rare these days in my experience, at least > compared to Flash. I run into them, but not daily. > > -- > Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
