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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Cardsortinig KMenu (was:Re: [another PATCH]: Kicker find as you
From:       julian oliver <julian () selectparks ! net>
Date:       2005-05-20 21:05:46
Message-ID: 20050520210546.GA5447 () localhost
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..on Fri, May 20, 2005 at 09:10:11AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> Fedora has it preinstalled (so do SuSE and Mand* and probably others)
> Debian seems to fall outside of the demographic anyway.
> Ubuntu allows you to install it using apt-get [1], which is the default way 
> of installing things.
> 
> Just installationsupport does not really seem a good reason to not use an 
> existing piece of software in this case.
> 
> 1) http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Java

given the howto you post above, it still assumes that a user manipulates their 
/etc/apt/sources.list in order to install java. 
this for a distribution arguably more popular than Fedora.

any external dependency on java has historically proven to be a bad idea, 
especially given it's non-free and polemic political status. 
java is difficult to distribute and hence install for this reason. 

secondly, installations of java across linux sites are performatively varied and 
tend to feature poor/abberrant rendering.  

Julian Oliver

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