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On Sun, 04 Jun 2006 22:13:24 +0200, Caster wrote: |
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> Firefox doesn't care about any java environment variables. It only cares |
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> about the file /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/javaplugin.so . In gentoo, |
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> this file is just a symlink to some actual plugin file in the VM |
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> installed (for example |
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> /opt/sun-jdk-1.5.0.06/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so). This |
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> symlink is created by emerging a JRE/JDK with "nsplugin" USE flag. The |
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> last VM installed with this USEflag takes this symlink. Currently |
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> there's no other way to change it except manual editing. Just recently |
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> on IRC I've suggested an eselect module for that, or to synchronize this |
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> with java-config (eselect java) VM changing. If you want to not depend |
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> on which VM was emerged last, emerge only the desired one with USE |
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> "nsplugin" (by editing package.use). |
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> Caster |
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Ah, so it's sort of a last-in vm get's the link deal. Thanks for |
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explaining that. It's a lot simpler than I was making it! |
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Peter |
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