the resulting jdk is bigger... by 64M but more usable now for development... it was part of jdk8 but not for 11

It's already there in the lib/openjdk/lib directory:

-r--r--r-- 2 root root 62M Jan  1  1970 /nix/store/0g6r8xlf5fshi23f64mrzabx3s042xaz-openjdk-11.0.8+10/lib/openjdk/lib/src.zip

We could add an extra symlink (without size increase). But I believe you can also set intellij to use ../lib/openjdk as java home.

Hi, I'm not using Intellij :) plus it's nice when things are in places where the tools look for them (in this case I'm using scala metals)

A symlink could work too, I didnt see it in another directory.. although I need to check again to be sure..

@gebner I've updated to use a symlink, thanks :)

Does metals work out-of-the-box now?

Could you also add the symlink to openjdk14, please?

@gebner yes, it does seem to work fine :)

also added to openjdk14, but unable to test if metals works with it as it is limited to java 11 atm. I did check the symlink though and it was resolving.