Hi, Hartmut Goebel <h.goe...@goebel-consult.de> skribis:
> I discovered that the "jdk" of icedtea includes "demos", "samples" and > even a "src.zip" file. These are as big as 50 MB, where the src.zip > contributes by 43 MB. Thee 50MB are ca. 12% of the whole jdk. > > IMHO, all of these should not be there since they are rarely needed. > Also it is common security best-practice to *not* include any demo code > on production systems - which should at least followed by such large > packages. The reasoning is that demos and examples are often prone to > errors and offering attack points. > > Shall I move these to "doc" or to a new output (e.g. "examples"). It would make sense to move them to “doc”, indeed; we’ve done it in other packages. Ludo’.
