minimal / server installation for -jre package needed

Tom Marble Tom.Marble at Sun.COM
Wed Aug 29 08:47:26 PDT 2007


Matthias Klose wrote:
> Are there any plans by upstream to recommend/suggest how such a split should be
> done so that distributions don't differ too much, or is this completly up to
> distributors?

There are no such plans as foo-bin-core could not be considered
"Compatible".  However doing so would be within distributors
rights under the GPL.

That being said if distros think this would be helpful I hope that
we can come up with a cross distro solution for the dependency graph.
By that I mean that the significance of the decomposition is
shared and analogous:

foo-bin-core: server core (i.e. no X, sound)
foo-bin: arch specific runtime
foo-jre: arch indep runtime
foo-jdk: SDK

Comments from other distros?

HTH,

--Tom




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