On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 20:44 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote: > > Why on earth didn't we make a provides for this a while ago? I thought > > we had done that. > > > > I feel like openjdk should provide 'jdk' at the least, no? >
Yep, it does proved jdk and jre as Paul explaings, but in the case of new installs, eclipse asks for jdk as a dependency, so the user with a new install with no java packages installed will get a dependency on jdk and not openjdk6. > I'm fairly sure we do. It's called "java-environment". The runtime is > "java-runtime". > > So openjdk provides "java-environment" which it already does. > > Eclipse for a long time required actual Sun jre to be built and was > tested with that. Now that it's being tested with openjdk6, it seems > like the reasonable time to make the switch to the new dependency. So > I'm planning to do that this weekend. > > - P Thanks Paul, I'm just waiting on this to amek the move.
