Re: [gentoo-dev] JRE support - is it worth it?

[George Shapovalov <george@gentoo.org>]

I think I should voice my "against" position here as well. 

1. I don't see any clear benefit in dropping the support for jre except for 
reduced maintaince argument. BTW, aren't jre and jdk ebuilds quite similar in 
terms of maintaince? If they are, then this might be a minor issue.

2. In terms of ideology: I have a feeling that being source based is really  
more technical detail of Gentoo Linux rather than ideological. 
The ideology behind Gentoo (in my inerpretation, but I saw this voiced by 
other people as well) states that the choice and possibility for user to 
adapt his system to specific task is the "defining feature". Thus the move to 
drop jre support would go directly against this position.

Just some thoughts anyway :).

George

On Monday 19 May 2003 20:49, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> I have talked with a couple of people the idea of dropping JRE support in
> Gentoo.  The reasons this idea came about:
>



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