[Mageia-dev] Removal of sun java

Thu Mar 29 22:23:05 CEST 2012

Op donderdag 29 maart 2012 21:08:22 schreef David Walser:
+> Guillaume Rousse <guillomovitch at ...> writes:
+> > If I want to keep a proprietary JRE on my computers, because I trust it
+> > more to run crap proprietary applications (also called
+> > corporate-compliants), than marvelous free-licensed environment they
+> > have never been tested with, that is my choice, not yours.
+> 
+> If they really want to keep Sun Java, shouldn't they just download the
+> installer from Sun and install it themselves, rather than using some
+> obsolete Mageia 1 package of it?
+
+
+well, iinm the version that the people have, will still have the correct 
+license and we are able to distribute it fine.
+
+i would argue that if security bugs we could remove it, but i'm not too sure 
+on this point... i mean, can we really remove it from them? otoh, people 
+wanting to have the proprietary ones, likely know what they are doing...
+
+perhaps we can obsolete it with one of those nonfree getters? (if security 
+bug)
+
+or, maybe a package that gives an README.urpmi ...
+
+IMHO: i think obsoleting it is fine, but with a README.urpmi that says notifies 
+that it's been obsoleted.
+
+(unless someone wants to have and maintain a nonfree getter application that 
+fetches the upstream releases)
+
+we really shouldn't keep stuff we can't maintain...
+