Comment 10 for bug 59987
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| Matthias Klose (doko) wrote Re: [Bug 59987] Re: sun-java5-jdk should ask to set itself as the default upon installation | #10 |
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Ben Maurer schrieb:
> Many users need to use java5 because it is used by other people they
> work with. Expecting them to figure out how to make it the default JRE
> by editing lots of text files is not reasonable.
>
> Maybe the easiest way to do this would be to have a way to (easily)
> *uninstall* gcj. That would allow us to still have sun java lower on
> each of the priority lists.
you can try this yourself. it may be possible. going this way means that
free software runs using non-free software, or all software needing
java needs to be moved to multiverse, which is not going to happen.
> Whatever the solution, I think it should be possible to have the sun JRE
> as one's default Java environment by only installing a set of packages
and you want the same for each other java runtime. that's not going to
work. further, we don't support sun-java5 in main, so the best solution
is to prefer the supported option.