> > FWIW, OpenOffice will install and run without Java on the system, at > > least if you use the binaries at openoffice.org. There's no reason > > why we can't have a separate openoffice-java in contrib for people > > that want the Java support. > > According to Peter, they won't build without a version of Java we don't > have in the archive, even in non-free. So the whole thing has to go into > contrib and be manually built on each system.
Or the build process must be changed to exclude the java-thingies for the main package. With the debianized packages this will hopefully work. Doeing it fast and taking upstreams build-process, it might be possible, too, but could be difficult. Also note, that it still builds or does not build dpending on the phase of the moon. Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link
