FreeBSD should adopt something like Ubuntu/Debian's update-alternatives

[sidetone]

Asserting like this ... preemptively, to defend your claim, another red flag.

Not necessarily, but at this point, the mods will figure out if so.

 

[swills@]

javavm is not as powerful as the Debian alternatives system.

What do you mean by "powerful" here?

JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/openjdk8 java -version gives the correct java.

I would think you would want to set JAVA_VERSION, based on what I read in the javavm(1) man page, but I'm not completely sure what you're trying to do.

 

[Datapanic]

FreeBSD does not need to adopt anything like Ubuntu, Debian Centos, Redhat, etc. FreeBSD is NOT Linux and never will be. FreeBSD has the best port/package system in the world and its maintainers for the most part keep it up to date. For example, try installing Bareos or OpenLDAP. On everything except FreeBSD, you get very VERY old OLD versions. Also, I can't count how many times I find out that problems with Ubuntu, Debian Centos, Redhat, etc. are due to OLD unfixed UNFIXED bugs. FreeBSD is not like that.

So, yeah, I think so too that the OP is trolling...

 

[SirDice]

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