Bug#353360: eclipse: What about update-java-alternatives?

[Felix Homann]

Package: eclipse
Version: 3.1.2-2
Followup-For: Bug #353360


Hi Michael,

On Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:42:41 +0100 Michael Koch wrote:
> The alternates system doesnt fit into the Java world. Eclipse needs more
> then just the java runtime binary. It needs whole Java Runtime
> environment.

As you know, since version 0.24 the java-common package provides 'update-java-alternatives'
which seems to facilitate setting a default Java Whatever environment.

Doesn't this change the situation? Would it not be possible now for
Eclipse to use the system's default JRE by default as set via
update-java-alternatives?

Kind regards,

Felix

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