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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 09:15:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <887d5ea3-ae94-2b21-dd40-add51516cbec@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ab579f6-d621-5410-6cb2-d53925a2d431@gmail.com>

On 04/11/2018 06:27 AM, Dale wrote:
> 
> I think that is where they were talking about moving it from.  At one
> point, they were discussing putting it in /var somewhere.  Maybe they
> decided not to move it at all.  I seem to recall there being a quite
> active and lengthy thread about it on -dev but that was years ago.  I
> don't think my archives go back that far. 
> 

It never worked. None of the better options had 100% support, so we left
it in the worst place of all, with which everyone is equally unhappy =)


  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-04-11 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-10 20:23 [gentoo-user] Wrong instructions when installing Oracle JRE Ian Zimmerman
2018-04-10 20:55 ` Dale
2018-04-10 22:43 ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-11  0:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Jonathan Callen
2018-04-11  3:22 ` [gentoo-user] " J. Roeleveld
2018-04-11  4:08   ` Dale
2018-04-11  6:08     ` R0b0t1
2018-04-11 10:27       ` Dale
2018-04-11 10:44         ` Peter Humphrey
2018-04-11 11:02           ` Dale
2018-04-11 13:15         ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2018-04-11 13:25           ` Dale
2018-04-12 16:19       ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman

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