Matt Bucknall kirjoitti:
> Hi Federico,
> 
> Thanks for your reply. My understanding is that java-config is specific
> to Gentoo. I assume then, there is no cross-platform means of finding
> out whether/where libraries are installed automatically (i.e. for use by
> some installation process). Is it normal practice when deploying a Java
> application to include all the JARs that it needs so not to rely on the
> end-user having some packages already pre-installed?
> 
> Thanks again,
> Matt.
> 
> 

Nope, not in the java world. Hopefully we will have something like
auto*, pkg-config etc in the java world too some day. It seems to be
very usual for upstreams to include all the dependencies inside their
source packages but the Linux distributions would appreciate if you also
distributed a src tarball without these dependencies to save bandwidth
and disk space. Packages are not going to use the bundled stuff.

Regards,
Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse