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I think I should voice my "against" position here as well. |
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1. I don't see any clear benefit in dropping the support for jre except for |
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reduced maintaince argument. BTW, aren't jre and jdk ebuilds quite similar in |
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terms of maintaince? If they are, then this might be a minor issue. |
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2. In terms of ideology: I have a feeling that being source based is really |
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more technical detail of Gentoo Linux rather than ideological. |
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The ideology behind Gentoo (in my inerpretation, but I saw this voiced by |
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other people as well) states that the choice and possibility for user to |
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adapt his system to specific task is the "defining feature". Thus the move to |
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drop jre support would go directly against this position. |
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Just some thoughts anyway :). |
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George |
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On Monday 19 May 2003 20:49, Dylan Carlson wrote: |
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> I have talked with a couple of people the idea of dropping JRE support in |
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> Gentoo. The reasons this idea came about: |
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