Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Who decided to override my Java installat

[Christoph Läubrich <laeubi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Is there any progress on this?

I noticed that even when using for example [1] in a target it downloads 
the full java 15 jre (>100mb) what is taking ages (eclipse servers are 
currently serving this with 16 to 32kb/s) to resolve target definition now.

Even worse, if one builds for multiple targets justj is downloaded for 
each target platform (e.g. linux, mac, windows) wasting a lot of 
bandwith, disk space and time...


<location includeAllPlatforms="false" includeConfigurePhase="false" 
includeMode="planner" includeSource="true" type="InstallableUnit">
 <repository location="https://download.eclipse.org/releases/2020-12/"/>
 <unit id="org.eclipse.sdk.feature.group" version="0.0.0"/>
</location>

Am 22.10.20 um 14:44 schrieb Greg Watson:
> Thanks Ed, that helped. Hopefully this will be fixed soon.
>
> Regards,
> Greg
>
> > On Oct 15, 2020, at 10:17 AM, Ed Merks <ed.merks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Greg,
> >
> > I don't think anyone has figured out why a JRE is automatically installed during update:
> >
> >    https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=567504
> >
> > You can undo this effect just by removing the -vm argument (to end up with the default) or by changing the -vm argument to the one you want it to use, in your eclipse.ini.
> >
> > It's liable to come back if there is an unexpected updated to the JRE in the future...
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ed
> >
> >
> > On 15.10.2020 15:11, Greg Watson wrote:
> > > My Eclipse installation recently prompted me to upgrade (something new), so I accepted the advice. Now I’ve discovered that an unknown JRE was downloaded onto my machine and is being used to run Eclipse. This is broken on so many levels, I don’t even know where to start opening bug reports.
> > >
> > > Since when does Eclipse start installing unauthorized versions of the JRE onto my machine without any notification, and that overrides my choice of the JRE (or JDK in my case) for running Eclipse? Not only is there no option to change or uninstall this, it breaks tools that rely on the JDK (e.g. Spring Boot Live hovers.)
> > >
> > > Does anybody else see the problem here? Someone needs to rethink this kind of behavior.
> > >
> > > In the mean time, does anyone know how to undo this mess, or am I forced to go back to 2020-06?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Greg