Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 13:56:05 -0400
> Thomas Fitzsimmons <fitzsim(a)redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> This was for gcjwebplugin-on-libgcj. The "icedtea-plugin rocks!"
>> thread is referring to gcjwebplugin-on-IcedTea which is
>> (audit-pending) much more secure. To make gcjwebplugin-on-IcedTea
>> installed and enabled by default as the original poster is proposing,
>> we'd need to have IcedTea available in comps.xml. It's too soon to
>> replace GCJ with IcedTea, because of the architecture coverage
>> issues, but does anyone see a problem with including IcedTea
>> alongside GCJ in the default comps.xml? That would mean that IcedTea
>> and GCJ would be installed by default, and IcedTea would take
>> precedence on architectures where it was available, and GCJ would be
>> the fallback, selectable using alternatives. Then the IcedTea plugin
>> would be installed by default on architectures where it is
>> available. I like this approach because there is demand for IcedTea
>> to be included by default.
>
> I thought this is what was going to be done anyway, that's the Feature
> configuration I voted for.
I didn't think IcedTea was suitable for inclusion in comps because I didn't know
the compose tools failed gracefully on exclusive-arch packages. OK to commit
this patch?
Tom