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

[Jiri Vanek]

On 04/16/2012 11:31 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
> 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 both?  Or... ?
>
Well metapackage can solve a lot, but it is to much effort which I don't think is worthy. But yes, it is option.
To install icedtea-web together with java without unnecessary circular dependences is eg to make java-1.x-0-openjdk postin dependent on icedtea-web. My talk with local packagers about this topic ("logical dependence") was just short one and maybe there is cleaner solution. But this should help too.


J.