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Okay. Thanks for the help. |
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Petteri Räty wrote: |
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> Matt Bucknall kirjoitti: |
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>> Hi Federico, |
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>> Thanks for your reply. My understanding is that java-config is specific |
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>> to Gentoo. I assume then, there is no cross-platform means of finding |
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>> out whether/where libraries are installed automatically (i.e. for use by |
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>> some installation process). Is it normal practice when deploying a Java |
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>> application to include all the JARs that it needs so not to rely on the |
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>> end-user having some packages already pre-installed? |
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>> Thanks again, |
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>> Matt. |
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> Nope, not in the java world. Hopefully we will have something like |
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> auto*, pkg-config etc in the java world too some day. It seems to be |
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> very usual for upstreams to include all the dependencies inside their |
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> source packages but the Linux distributions would appreciate if you also |
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> distributed a src tarball without these dependencies to save bandwidth |
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> and disk space. Packages are not going to use the bundled stuff. |
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> Regards, |
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> Petteri Räty (Betelgeuse |
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