Alexandre Rossi <alexandre.ro...@gmail.com> writes: > The concept is: > - for people who want to run headless, pull minimal dependencies > - for people who want to run the graphical client, install more > dependencies (see Suggests: default-jre, libswt-cairo-gtk-4-jni, > libopenjfx-java) > > I do not see how to do it better, maybe switch to Recommends: ?
Hi. Can we produce two different packages with different depends? You can have Package: davmail-headless Depends: default-jre-headless Package: davmail Depends: default-jre As for what's actually in those packages, I don't know enough about java to say. If this was normal C code, you could build two different binaries: one that links against libgraphics-whatever and one that doesn't. If you can't do that, and you have only one binary, then you can use the same binary in both pacakges, but you'd patch the sources to catch the exceptions, and produce an error message telling the user about installing the proper package. I think the only case to catch would be running with the davmail-headless package without -server. Does that sound reasonable? I don't know nearly enough about java linking to say for sure. Thanks
