From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GlRwK-0004rj-4u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:17:08 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAIFGQaJ004208; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:16:26 GMT Received: from smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com (smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com [217.12.11.35]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kAIFGQ1Y023249 for ; Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:16:26 GMT Received: (qmail 92460 invoked from network); 18 Nov 2006 15:16:26 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.uk; h=Received:X-YMail-OSG:Message-ID:Date:From:User-Agent:MIME-Version:To:CC:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=bctCoE6iR3H3WtexNCJwa57LgEFIQecO8xWQAZh1WM9HLCPfAnzpAf79c4aO9kIbVVTn+P1to0Fnj53eXH2KR9W+YovMr6UMulqkdkqVbJIYiGafArZgI5Hrvcne1h5X9C1jF7I43/yafDtOAK4Bv1lUX7osT0IfWeSBj6m/VNc= ; Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.101?) (matt_bucknall@82.34.113.129 with plain) by smtp004.mail.ukl.yahoo.com with SMTP; 18 Nov 2006 15:16:25 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: XZwvX1MVM1lRwowlbKXgXjvUkP3DZoXyHt76OaOAyetoGsuN8I0qn_gRiZd1fRnCaQiIRvIaJiW7p2H1xfo1xU5jME1JCFIUiSySI90gagMP34mFl1Y7ceppGPo7v9qzeiAQGw-- Message-ID: <455F23EC.5030909@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:17:00 +0000 From: Matt Bucknall User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061021) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?UGV0dGVyaSBSw6R0eQ==?= CC: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] CLASSPATH deprecated? References: <455E340C.5070708@yahoo.co.uk> <455E3E4C.9080201@fsfe.org> <455F1301.8020600@yahoo.co.uk> <455F15DF.5040200@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <455F15DF.5040200@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id kAIFGQal004208 X-Archives-Salt: cd3491f8-0f65-4c5c-96a6-7aa3fa1d31da X-Archives-Hash: 00cc1273f953ba92fedd1368473b3534 Okay. Thanks for the help. Petteri R=C3=A4ty wrote: > Matt Bucknall kirjoitti: > =20 >> Hi Federico, >> >> Thanks for your reply. My understanding is that java-config is specifi= c >> 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 Jav= a >> application to include all the JARs that it needs so not to rely on th= e >> end-user having some packages already pre-installed? >> >> Thanks again, >> Matt. >> >> >> =20 > > 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 als= o > distributed a src tarball without these dependencies to save bandwidth > and disk space. Packages are not going to use the bundled stuff. > > Regards, > Petteri R=C3=A4ty (Betelgeuse > > =20 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.co= m =0D --=20 gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list