On Wednesday 03 November 2010, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
Le mercredi 03 novembre 2010 à 19:27 +0200, Ville Skyttä a écrit :
> 3) In my opinion, the whole alternatives setup in the JRE and SDK
> packages should be purged. It's a relic from times that are long gone,
Having a semi-sane way to install multi-vendor multi-version JVMs is
still needed EPEL side. Expensive apps like SAP still make you install
the specific JVM they've been qualified against.
But such JVMs do not need to be made the system default at all, people can
just run $expensive_app with it by whatever means they like (e.g. direct
modification of $PATH, $JAVA_HOME, etc _for that specific app_).
Providing an easy way for admins to alter the system default JVM to something
which will break expectations of software _we_ ship (in Fedora or EPEL) just
doesn't make sense to me.