In <4fe4c4f50907020939v7039d33ej8056970848e03...@mail.gmail.com>, ChadDavis wrote: >When I'm using >an advanced project tool, like Maven, all of these Java "libraries" >are managed for me -- they are all kept in a local repository to >eliminate all of the maintenance issues associated with managing >resources that a multitude of apps might depend upon. This is my >perspective on these "libs".
This is akin to having a private version of every shared library you use in your source repository that your program specifically links against. It defeats all the advantages of shared libraries, yet still has the same runtime overhead. Such code duplication is frowned upon in Debian, no matter what language is being used. It makes security issues harder to track and fix in addition to taking more space on the mirrors (and individual systems) and the excessive RAM usage at runtime. To this end, all applications that are packaged for Debian are supposed to use the appropriate library packages instead of including a private version of the library. This is true if they are C, Ada, Java, Lisp, Prolog, or Haskel. These lib*-java packages install jar files and are Depended upon just the Java applications packaged for Debian that need that library. >I would, then, like to understand why Debian offers a Debian package >of something like the libcommons-collections-java Jar file. Any Java >developers out there? I haven't been a Java developer for quite a while. I find I'm more productive and just as cross-platform in C++/Qt. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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