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

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/16/2012 10:20 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> 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?

What exactly would you do?  Make openjdk depend on the plugin?  A
virtual package that depended on bot?  Or... ?

Andrew.