[arch-general] Java 6 back in [community]

Thomas Dziedzic gostrc at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 14:51:38 EDT 2011


As a result of problems oracle has faced with java 7, it has marked it
for developers only: http://java.com/en/download/faq/java7.xml

This is why I have decided to bring back java 6 into [community] and
it will coexist with java 7 for the time being.

jre/jdk - java 7
jre6/jdk6 - java 6

java 6 packages conflict with java 7 packages, so you will not be able
to have them both installed at the same time.

Note, this is only temporary until Oracle announces yet again, that
java 7 is available for general use.
I expect this to be at around the time update 1 or 2 comes out for java 7.
After they announce this, java 6 is going back into the aur.

Happy hacking!


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