Digital Wokan wrote:
>
> Well, I did the kdebase with --nodeps, though I think it would be a
> better move to remove the jdk as a dependancy (as the package obviously
> works without it).
> I did download the jdk from Sun. I'm sure I must have agreed to some
> stupid license that I'll get sued for someday when I'm some kind of
> Uber-developer.
>
> Digital Wokan wrote:
> >
> > Just when KDE got out from under the blaze of controversy over QT not
> > being GPL, they go and require Java to make things work. So when I go
> > to find this dependancy for installing KDEBase-2.1..., I find sites
> > who've been required to delete it due to licensing issues. Apparently
> > this one isn't going to be as simple as QT was (everybody who wanted KDE
> > just ignored/accepted the QT/GPL issues). Sun has apparently decided
> > that their license will not be so casually ignored.
> > {muttered under breath... Thanks a lot, KDE team.}
> >
> > Anyone want to e-mail me the .rpm since anyone caught posting this thing
> > will probably be fried for flying in the face of the Sun. (Sorry, bad
> > pun.)
> > --
> > Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age
> > Guerilla Linux Warrior
>
> --
> Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age
> Guerilla Linux Warrior
In case you find yourself missing Java in Konqueror or Mozilla or
Netscape 6, you might want to take the effort to download the rpm from
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.3.0_01/jre/index.html#linux
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