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From: Michael Rohleder <mike@rohleder.de>
To: Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net>
Cc: christopher@librehacker.com, 42423@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42423: icedtea: JAVA_HOME
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 13:49:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873657ewfb.fsf@rohleder.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f89d538f045bc4ad46d441a47b0d2636534edd75.camel@qlfiles.net> (Christopher Howard's message of "Sat, 18 Jul 2020 21:09:52 -0800")

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Hi Christopher,

Christopher Howard <christopher.howard@qlfiles.net> writes:
> Hi, I'm not going to pretend to be a Java expert, but I was trying to
> build and run a Java application, and had to set JAVA_HOME manually. It
> is my understanding from my research[1] that applications often will
> want JAVA_HOME set to the path to the java install directory. It would
> seem like it would be useful if Guix set that as well for the icedtea
> and icedtea:jdk package.
>
> If there are good reasons for that not to be, perhaps more
> knowledgeable individuals will explain it.
>
> One part I'm not quite sure about is what JAVA_HOME would be set to if
> both icedtea and icedtea:jdk were installed.

I dont think this is a good idea (or even possible?):

From a Developer POV I think its pretty common to have many jdk's installed
(8,11,14 sometimes even 7). To what should JAVA_HOME be set/defaults in this
case?

I dont know a distribution which sets JAVA_HOME (per default) and I
think its much better to let the user or sysadmin decide which one is
best...

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-07-31 11:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-19  5:09 bug#42423: icedtea: JAVA_HOME Christopher Howard
2020-07-19 10:29 ` Julien Lepiller
2020-07-31 11:49 ` Michael Rohleder [this message]
2020-07-31 14:14   ` Christopher Howard
2020-07-31 15:10     ` Ricardo Wurmus

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