On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 20:25 +1930, Angel Velásquez wrote:
not really, unless you regard kde packages in [extra] as duplicates of those in [kde-mod]. jre and jdk is just sun's jdk split into two packages for the sole purpose of having smaller binary packages, but serve no purpose at all if you are building from a pkgbuild.
First of all kde-mod is a good project, but their binaries are not official, and they can duplicate what they want on their repos.
not exactly what i meant, sunjdk doesn't split the official package, in the same way kde in [extra] doesn't. if it's up to me jre and jdk wouldn't exist, but to those who only need java support for their browser, they couldn't care less about jdk, so it's better for those to have a smaller package to download and install, thus the kde-mod analogy. if you compared my package to jre in [community], you'll notice that i haven't added any extra sources, i just decided to install the rest of the package. cheers.