9 Nov
2005
9 Nov
'05
10:12 p.m.
On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 16:08 -0500, Ryan wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
OK, so you need a .spec file and a couple of lines of script. The point is that the hard and unnecessary part is finding all the stuff yourself in the first place. Instead of directions that point to distribution agnostic and vague directions, why can't we have something that just installs it for us?
because current java licensing prevents such useful things.
I've noticed some other distros (*cough* Debian *cough*) are including java packages in their repo. Any idea how they get away with it?
Maybe Sun just doesn't want to rock the boat...
They have the free jpackage.org stuff ... they do not have the Sun or IBM SDK / JRE stuff in the repos (that I can find).