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On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 05:18:20AM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > > Then after it sets everything right. I love > >>it, as I am lazy and Andrew does a good job at it. Just a FYI, Ric > > > >This kind of laziness is good, but sometime it is just better to favour > >Debian ways. > >BTW, the Debian Java Maintainers does a good job as well. > > Right, but they have to deal with OpenJDK in order to stay true to > the Debian mission statement? Since Oracle explicitly forbids to re-distribute their Java - what other choice do they have? > I cannot use OpenJDK since it doesn't > work for the 3D graphic application I use. If you get curious, > install galternatives, which is a handy GUI to examine/edit where > alternatives are set to. That Oracle-7-installer sets them all, the > ones I noted. To me, it beats the dickens out of going to Oracle via > browser to install. Oracle's Java is for enterprise. It's not designed for common folk. > Using it, I have had no problems with ripping > OpenJDK off my machine and then running OpenOffice. And since the only thing that actually needs Java in OpenOffice (or LibreOffice for that matter) is OpenOffice Base - that's not an achievement at all. Reco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150417105153.GA30586@x101h
