Darüber wurde gerade auf der Mailingliste diskutiert. Ich zitiere das einfach mal:
From: Jan de Groot <
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To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <
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Subject: Re: [arch-general] Concurrent java environments
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:29:41 +0100
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On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 04:21 +0100, Ondřej Kučera wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was wondering - why jre/jdk packages conflict with java-gcj-compat?
> Unless I missed something there are no file conflicts (since jre and
> jdk are in /opt) and I think the rest (switching between the
> environments when necessary) could be done be (re)setting of
> environment variables (such as $PATH and $JAVA_HOME). Or am I
> overlooking something?
>
> Being a java developer (at least from time to time) I am in need of Sun
> implementation (actually even of version 6), on the other hand on
> x86_64 the webplugin from gcc-gcj in combination with java-gcj-compat is
> the only way to run some applets (e. g. those that need security
> certificates; for other applets only gcc-gcj might be enough).
>
> Ondřej
You could install gcc-gcj and symlink the web plugin in the right
directory without installing java-gcj-compat. The reason why we have it
conflicting is because we want to have only one complete java solution
installed on a system.