Alexander Kurtakov <akurtakov@(protected):

> > > You're just giving fuel to my usual argument: if those packages
> > > had been called just 'java', you would have less questions from
> > > clueless users about just how to use them.
> >
> > I think it "provides" java. The problem is the half dozen other
> > packages also providing "java"...
> >
> > On 2008.1 :
> > # urpmq --whatprovides java
> > java-1.5.0-sun|java-1.6.0-sun|java-1.7.0-icedtea|java-1.5.0-sun|jamvm|cacao
> >|java-1.6.0-sun|java-1.5.0-gcj|kaffe|java-1.5.0-sun|java-1.6.0-sun
>
> java-1.70-icedtea is removed.
> And I propose removing also java-1.5.0-sun and java-1.6.0-sun, there is no
> technical reason for keeping them. But maybe there are some paying customers
> that require them.
> Kaffe can be removed also.
>
> And we will be left with the following jvms:
> * java-1.6.0-openjdk - Our main jvm.
> * java-1.5.0-gcj - Needed for bootstrapping openjdk.
> * cacao
> * jamvm
>
> And I'm ok with dropping the java provides from the last 2 , which will limit
> the choice to only gcj and openjdk.

This is the time to add java-1.6.0-openjdk to
/etc/urpmi/prefer.vendor.list...