Bug 43759

Summary:	adding items to the classpath
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Robert Schuster <theBohemian>
Component:	[OLD] Development	Assignee:	Java team <java>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	31468

Description Robert Schuster 2004-03-04 17:28:34 UTC

when adding a java-package to the system or user classpath multiple times the jar files is added multi times. I don't think this is a good idea. A hintful message that the package was already in the classpath would be better.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. java-config -B foo
..
.
n. java-config -B foo

Actual Results:  
classpath contains foo.jar n times.

Expected Results:  
classpath contains foo.jar only one time and a helpful message is displayed when
steps 2 to n are executed saying that that foo is already in the classpath.

Highlighting installed packages when doing java-config -l would be nice as well.

Comment 1 Jason A. Mobarak (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-04-12 23:15:01 UTC

I'm working fixing the -B option but patches are appreciated (for highlighting in -l maybe).

Comment 2 Karl Trygve Kalleberg (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-10 14:15:36 UTC

In moving to the new Java environment scheme, setting the system classpath will
most likely be deprecated.

This has been fixed for the -a and -b options (user), however, so I consider this
matter closed.

Reopen with violent objections at your leisure:)