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

[Andrew Haley]

On 04/17/2012 11:49 AM, Andrew Dinn wrote:
> On 17/04/12 10:41, Andrew Haley wrote:
>> I think we should open a fedora bug for this.  Something along the
>> lines of "plugin is not installed by default and is hard for a user
>> to find."
> 
> I don't disagree with this but I'll note two things about the 'use case'
> Fernando offered that is driving this change.
> 
> First, if you type openjdk into the Fedora (16) Add/Remove Software GUI
> the plug-in /is/ found (it gets listed as 'Extra packages for OpenJDK'
> or something like that).
> 
> Second, his example of 'yum install openjdk*' is misleading. You can
> only wildcard yum info/list. If you do use 'yum info' then it appears to
> search the package names using the lcase version of what you type in.
> 
> I don't want to sound like I am nit-picking (although I am sure I do). I
> think it is important that we present a case to Sun that is clear and
> correct.

I don't think we have to present anything to Sun/Oracle.  It's a
problem we can fix in Fedora AFAICS.

Andrew.