Summary: | virtual/jre: prefer openjdk-jre-bin over virtual/jre | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Alex Xu (Hello71) <alex_y_xu> |
Component: | Current packages | Assignee: | Java team <java> |
Status: | RESOLVED WONTFIX | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | hydrapolic |
Priority: | Normal | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- |
Description
Alex Xu (Hello71)
2020-03-29 22:41:46 UTC
no. most users prefer non-bin jdk instead of binary jre. jre does not make a lot of sense honestly. and if you don't clean bdeps it will not be removed by depclean. closing. *your* explanation "does not make a lot of sense". if users prefer non-bin jdk, then why the hell does virtual/jdk (*not jre!*) prefer bin? and don't be so high and mighty. if you want to talk about "not making sense", then why the hell does openjdk ebuild have this nonsense: einfo "Creating the Class Data Sharing archives and disabling usage tracking" "${ddest}/bin/java" -server -Xshare:dump -Djdk.disableLastUsageTracking this jdk.disableLastUsageTracking parameter controls oracle java usage tracker, which is not implemented in openjdk. it also doesn't work, because it would need to be set on every java invocation. furthermore, java usage tracker also needs to be explicitly installed and enabled by the administrator, so even if this worked, it would contradict the administrator's explicit request. *that's* nonsense. I, as a regular user, prefer binary jre if jdk is not necessary. |