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 1FnCDq-0000a2-1l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 10:22:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k55AKfRm004989; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:20:41 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k55AKd8b023176 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:20:39 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3CFD649C0 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:20:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 28362-11-2 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98C65649AD for ; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 10:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1FnCBy-0000xe-Tk for gentoo-java@gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:20:14 +0200 Received: from c-68-39-44-30.hsd1.nj.comcast.net ([68.39.44.30]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:20:14 +0200 Received: from pete4abw by c-68-39-44-30.hsd1.nj.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:20:14 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org From: Peter Subject: [gentoo-java] Re: Sun Java JDK 1.4* and Sun Java JRE 1.5 issue Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 06:20:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <44833EE4.4090708@seznam.cz> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-44-30.hsd1.nj.comcast.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) X-Archive: encrypt Sender: news X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.995 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.604, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -1.995 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 341b211c-aaf8-4037-8950-70b68546ad53 X-Archives-Hash: 7e12061bf0e3f874b6463fa0d6c9b923 On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:13:24 +0200, Caster wrote: snip... > > Firefox doesn't care about any java environment variables. It only cares > about the file /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so . In gentoo, > this file is just a symlink to some actual plugin file in the VM > installed (for example > /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so). This > symlink is created by emerging a JRE/JDK with "nsplugin" USE flag. The > last VM installed with this USEflag takes this symlink. Currently > there's no other way to change it except manual editing. Just recently > on IRC I've suggested an eselect module for that, or to synchronize this > with java-config (eselect java) VM changing. If you want to not depend > on which VM was emerged last, emerge only the desired one with USE > "nsplugin" (by editing package.use). > > Caster Ah, so it's sort of a last-in vm get's the link deal. Thanks for explaining that. It's a lot simpler than I was making it! -- Peter -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list