If Icedtea-web is the plug-in component for OpenJDK upstream, its name should be openjdk-plugin !

Jiri Vanek jvanek at redhat.com
Mon Apr 16 02:20:14 PDT 2012


On 04/16/2012 10:32 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 04/15/2012 08:27 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 16:12, Florian Weimer<fw at deneb.enyo.de>  wrote:
...
>> Of course, in this conservative approach, those who type only "yum
>> install openjdk" would get just the OpenJDK and not IcedTea, just as
>> happens right now. But the openjdk-plugin alias name to Icedtea would
>> greatly increase its visibility, *IMHO*
>
> I don't know that it would.
>
> I don't disagree that it would be much better if it were easier to find
> the plugin.  I think it would be best if the browser told people how to
> do it.  I'm not convinced that simply calling the plugin openjdk-plugin
> would make it easier for many users.  But I am open to persuasion.
>

To install icedtea-web together with java-1.x.openjdk is not hard from packager's perspective .... actually why we are not doing it?

J.



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