adoptium / adoptium/installer

add headless subpackage

Open
#917 15 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
Dominant language
Jinja
Stars
168
Forks
77
Avg merge
2d 14h
Merged PRs (30d)
12

Description

This issue was pinpointed as regression in https://github.com/adoptium/installer/issues/848

Fedora/rehl packages contain headless subkg,m which is jre without graphiclal stack. The package is of nearly same size as would is current headfull package, but the depndencies are gone - about 1gb of dependencis (both manual and generated).
The headfull jre then requires headless jre and it isefl have just desktop integration and awt libraries.. and all the deps.
It is very cool feature, as we know, very widely known. There was request to have headless sdk subpkg, but we nwever made that step.

More detailed info in https://github.com/adoptium/installer/issues/848

@jiekang fyi!

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start by reading the linked regression issue, adoptium/installer#848, then trace the repository's packaging entry points for the existing JRE package. Done means a separate headless JRE subpackage is produced, while the full JRE retains desktop integration and depends on the headless package as described.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
build-system, operating-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.