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> I often keep a collection of older versions and different patch levels in my home directory.

And they are obviously going to work because you’ve satisfied all the main OpenJDK dependencies through the install with your package-manager.

If you repeat your own scenario with the .NET SDK instead, you will have the exact same experience.




That's actually not true. They'd work even if I removed the main one.

Its how I did it before the distribution packaged OpenJDK, which really wasn't that long ago.




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