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

Fernando Cassia fcassia at gmail.com
Mon Apr 16 03:33:12 PDT 2012


On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 05:32, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> I'm not convinced that simply calling the plugin openjdk-plugin
> would make it easier for many users.  But I am open to persuasion.
>

Yes it would help. In two instances:

When you do 'yum install openjdk7* '  to install all packages with names
beginning with "openjdk7..."
And also for users who search for packages by name on the GUIs for package
managers (ie Fedora's Add-Remove programs)

Just my $0.02.

FC
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