On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Scott Howard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 2:10 PM, Niels Thykier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> * Removed dependencies on JREs - per the Java Policy this is no
>> longer required.
>
> Do we not need to depend on default-jre-headless for libraries? Or is
> it optional? I don't see anything in the policy saying that it was
> required to - so when is it good to include the dependency? Thank you.
Earlier policy (and a very outdated one, but that was reworked only
recently) mandated that libraries should depend on an appropriate java
runtime.
If my memory serves me right, only *programs* should depend on the
java runtime they need to run, but not libraries.
Cheers,
Vincent
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