Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:55:46 -0700 From: Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diablo-jdk not installing correctly Message-ID: <20100426015546.GA66457@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20100426005727.GA14128@osiris.chen.org.nz> References: <v2u49856ef1004251634hf5f83489j4cf0db1b5558e917@mail.gmail.com> <20100426005727.GA14128@osiris.chen.org.nz>
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On Sun 25 Apr 2010 at 17:57:27 PDT Jonathan Chen wrote: >On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 07:34:19PM -0400, herbey zepeda wrote: > >[...] >> I am concerned because according to the literature diablo is supposed to >> be the maintained jdk for FreeBSD. And I realize that I am having to >> download version 7.1 when we are already on version 8.0 of FreeBSD to make >> java work >> >> My question is: is Java in FreeBSD an experimental/academic package? Should >> I rather go with the linux compatibility way? > >There has been no movement with the diablo-jdk for ages; java/openjdk6 >is better maintained and would be a better choice. Maybe so, but it seems some ports are calling out diablo-jdk as a dependency. I know I didn't explicitly choose to install it. I should probably rtfm, but is there a way to force ports to use openjdk instead?
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