retitle 509690 please don't depend on Java severity 509690 wishlist tag 509690 + wontfix thanks
Hi, David Baron wrote: > I have a sun-java-jre installed from Sun's runtime. > I can no longer update openoffice packages because they seem to demand > Debians sun-java packages. Wrong. It demands *ANY* JVM supported. jaca-gcj-compat does work too. And so does openjdk. > OpenOffice's java component runs off the Sun installation just fine as does > most all other java > programs. I really do not need a duplicate installation. And? Then tell the package systen using (equivs?) that you have Java already. The package system in this case does not know that - it simply cant. > I might be better to "recommend" the Debian packages rather than "require" > them. And break the install for people who don't know that parts use Java? And thus don't install them? > (Switching involves change paths and switching Sun's netbeans over before > removing Sun's installation.) Not my problem. And OOo is not the only Java-using app depending on the JRE. Do you really want all JVM-using packages to not depend on Java so that they don't work out of the box when you install them)? This hasn't changed from your post on debian-user where you got the same answer(s). Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`. René Engelhard -- Debian GNU/Linux Developer : :' : http://www.debian.org | http://people.debian.org/~rene/ `. `' r...@debian.org | GnuPG-Key ID: 248AEB73 `- Fingerprint: 41FA F208 28D4 7CA5 19BB 7AD9 F859 90B0 248A EB73 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
