[Bug 239816] java/openjdk11 JRE only option

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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239816

Greg Lewis <glewis at FreeBSD.org> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Greg Lewis <glewis at FreeBSD.org> ---
As Michael notes, the JRE is no longer being distributed by Oracle for either
JDK 11 or 12.  Same with AdoptOpenJDK.

This stack overflow posting is relevant:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52714672/is-there-an-openjdk-11-jre

Particularly since the author is a Java product manager at Oracle.  Basically
it sounds like there is no such thing as an official JRE any more.  Instead you
can use jlink to create a custom distribution containing only the modules that
are needed for your application.  However, that's not something you'd want in
the ports system necessarily.

So yes, you could do a separate port which limited itself to the set of tools
that were previously in the JRE, but I'd question the benefits of FreeBSD
branching out to do something like this.

Absent patches to do just that, I'm going to close this, but please feel free
to create such a port and post some patches for comment.

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