From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25263 invoked by uid 1002); 20 May 2003 23:51:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 14408 invoked from network); 20 May 2003 23:51:00 -0000 From: William Kenworthy Reply-To: billk@iinet.net.au To: gentoo-dev List In-Reply-To: <200305201841.44994.absinthe@gentoo.org> References: <200305192349.32237.absinthe@gentoo.org> <20030520163245.GA6672@vaughan.foofalicious.com> <200305201841.44994.absinthe@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1053474460.23876.37.camel@rattus.Localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4- Date: 21 May 2003 07:47:40 +0800 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] JRE support - is it worth it? X-Archives-Salt: 4dcd3bc5-cc4e-4d85-a277-4692209e022c X-Archives-Hash: 875792de34f3216405b962c3f5b6e2dc Actually, I would have to say that most users would have no direct benefit from jdk, and even less have tomcat installed. I am also sick of downloading huge jdk packages over a modem! I cannot see any advantage in compiling against a binary jdk than accepting the equivalent binary JRE in most cases. Perhaps a JDK/JRE use flag? BillK On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 06:41, Dylan Carlson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 20 May 2003 12:32 pm, Chris Davies wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Secondly, there is simply no advantage to compiling java applications on > > the system in question. It is a complete waste of time. Java compiles -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list