Multilib Middle-Ground

[Kevin Kofler]

Les Mikesell <lesmikesell <at> gmail.com> writes:
> I can say that OpenNMS won't currently work with a 1.6 version because 
> it's developers have said so.

Then surely you should blame OpenNMS for not supporting the latest version of 
Java! Java is almost completely backwards-compatible, they have really no 
excuses for still shipping something which doesn't work with the 1.5-year-old 
latest version.

By the way, have you really tried it? My experience is that stuff often just 
works with IcedTea even if they claim to only support 1.5.

> I don't understand what that has to do with making it difficult to 
> install a compliant version.

s/compliant/obsolete/

Quit talking about "standards compliant" when what you really want is ancient 
legacy crap. The certified 1.6 implementation from Sun won't run those programs 
any better than OpenJDK does.

> conversations here I thought someone said the relationship was 
> deliberately broken with portions moved into fedora packages and the 
> rest ignored.

Are you trying to fault Fedora for including what they can include? Obviously 
they won't include the non-Free crap which is on JPackage, nor stuff which 
non-Free dependencies. Some of the incompatibilities in packaging are also due 
to JPackage hardcoding dependencies on non-Free crap into Free packages which 
aren't really necessary and which Fedora patches out.

        Kevin Kofler