583454 – app-eselect/eselect-java add option to 'unset' user-vm if version no longer installed, and fall back to system-vm.

Bug 583454 - app-eselect/eselect-java add option to 'unset' user-vm if version no longer installed, and fall back to system-vm.

Summary: app-eselect/eselect-java add option to 'unset' user-vm if version no longer i...

Status:	UNCONFIRMED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Java (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Java team

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Reported:	2016-05-18 22:27 UTC by ephemer0l
Modified:	2023-10-27 12:04 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description ephemer0l 2016-05-18 22:27:51 UTC

I ran into problems similar to bug 464096.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mark H. Wood 2023-10-27 12:04:45 UTC

See discussion: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1016408-start-0.html

A settings tool needs an "unset".  It really shouldn't require one to understand its inner workings in order to revoke a temporary personal setting.  One shouldn't have to understand the role of the Higgs boson in driving nails, in order to operate a hammer.

I just ran into this again, when a cron job ran afoul of a long-forgotten setting and I had to research and track down the link that embodied it to undo the damage.