[lsb-discuss] Java Installation Points
Jeff Licquia
jeff at licquia.org
Wed May 21 20:55:15 PDT 2008
Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> Jeff Licquia wrote:
>> Are we proposing that $JAVAHOME or somesuch be specified instead of
>> /usr/share/java, in addition to it, or... ?
> (First, note that there are some objects in $JAVAHOME which are platform
> specific. The java launcher is one example.)
>
> No.
>
> In LSB 4,0, this shouldn't be specified. Its just what ever the distro
> decides to do.
>
> Looking at a JRE as an LSB 3.x application, placing platform specific
> files and platform neutral file under a single directory node is allowed
> by the specification and we have good reasons to want it that way (see
> above).
Ah, I get it now. /usr/java -> /usr/lib/java, and not bothering with
moving some stuff into /usr/share. I'm cool with that.
Sorry for being slow.
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