[Mageia-discuss] java question, of sorts

Tue Mar 20 15:38:19 CET 2012

I've been using Oracle's version of JRE 1.7.x for the browser plugin on 
+one of my computers and decided to replace it with the icedtea-web 
+plugin as a test. As I was going into the mozilla plugin directory to 
+manually remove the link, I happened to notice a number of empty 
+directories in /usr/lib labelled java and java 1.x, most of them old 
+versions.
+
+It may be a stupid question, but is there any compelling reason for 
+those empty directories to be there? From all I can see, they're just 
+taking up space.
+
+BTW, the one website that used to be unhappy with the iced tea plugin is 
+now satisfied with this version, so I really have no need for the Oracle 
+version any more. In fact, I like the iced tea plugin better, because it 
+displays components of a radar loop as they are loaded. The jre plugin 
+waits for the whole loop to load before displaying anything.
+
+TJ
+
+