Re: [gentoo-user] Re: status of dev-java/icedtea

[Daniel Campbell <zlg@gentoo.org>]

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On 07/01/2016 07:50 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2016-07-01 15:02 +0100, Stroller wrote:
> 
>> Surely if there’s an ebuild in the tree, yet it needs patching, you
>> should be filing a bug to get the patch included.
> 
> Even the patch is so horribly ugly that I cannot bring myself to do
> this.  The program has a hardcoded list of bitmap fonts, and the
> particular fonts make it unusable on my huge screen; my patch replaces
> the list with other bitmap fonts, equally hardcoded but suitable for my
> environment.
> 
> I really doubt that such a patch would be accepted.  Or any patch, in
> fact; I half expect that the response would be "Why don't you just use
> the nice java-based cgoban2?"
> 
Even poor patches are encouraged in bug reports, because a hacky patch
can be turned into a better one. Chewi and monsieurp have done a lot to
improve Java packages, but there are so many that they won't know which
ones need attention without a bug report. As far as I understand, we
generally recommend icedtea over Oracle's Java stuff.

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