[Nix-dev] Make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?

[Chad Joan]

Hi Anderson,

I have been using the "Nix Modifying Packages" document to help me install
a more recent kernel (work in process still...).

It doesn't seem to offer anything like Gentoo's virtual packages, though.
Thanks for trying!

- Chad

On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 1:18 AM, Anderson Torres <
torres.anderson.85 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2015-02-14 21:06 GMT-02:00 Chad Joan <chadjoan at gmail.com>:
> > Hello!
> >
> > Is it possible to make Firefox/Chrome use OpenJDK instead of Oracle JDK?
> > If so, how?
> >
> > I have read this article: https://nixos.org/wiki/Enable_Browser_Plugins
> >
> > Here is my configuration.nix: http://pastebin.com/hA2eV7TM
> >
> > In my first attempt, I tried to follow the wiki advice, including the
> "jre =
> > true" suggestion, but with ignoring the suggestion to download Oracle
> JDK in
> > advance.  Predictably, when I ran "nixos-rebuild switch", it failed and
> > complained about needing Oracle JDK to be manually downloaded.
> >
> > Next, used the same configuration, but with one exception: I tried adding
> > pkgs.jdk to my environment.systemPackages list.  This is the attribute
> name
> > I get when I run 'nix-env -qaP --description ".*jdk.*"' (I still wonder
> why
> > that query doesn't bring up the Oracle JDK as well...).  This failed the
> > same way as the first attempt.
> >
> > I am suspecting that pkgs.jdk doesn't fulfill the JDK/JRE dependency
> given
> > by firefoxWrapper.  This would be unintuitive to me, because any JDK
> should
> > be able to satisfy a JDK/JRE dependency.  Hopefully I just misunderstand
> how
> > NixOS is resolving dependencies :)
> >
> > I am trying to avoid the Oracle JRE because I don't want it to bug me
> with a
> > fetch restriction every time a system update bumps my Java version.  I've
> > been through this with Gentoo, and it has made me put extra effort into
> > avoiding things with licenses that require manual downloading.
> >
> > At some level, I am hoping to find something analogous to (or capable of
> > replacing) Gentoo's virtual packages.  "virtual" packages in Gentoo
> would be
> > used for things like Java, where there are multiple implementations for a
> > piece of software.  A package (ex: firefox) can depend on a virtual
> package
> > (ex: jre) to avoid locking the admin into a specific implementation, and
> a
> > virtual package can be installed by installing any one of its
> > implementations.:
>
> Maybe it could help:
> https://nixos.org/wiki/Nix_Modifying_Packages
>
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> > - Chad
> >
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