On 01.05.2012 22:56, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote: > Hi Michele, > > Sorry for the delay of taking care of #661465 (I was working on other FOSS > projects...). > > Le mardi 17 avril 2012 18:08:28, Michele Renda a écrit : >> The main problem is that the package openjdk-7-jre depends by some Gnome >> related stuff, like gconf, libgnome2-0, libgnomevfs2-0, etc. > > JFTR, those depends are actually used by real code from openjdk : > - libgconf-2.so is used by OpenJDK to detect current proxy configuration from > gnome (see jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/net/spi/DefaultProxySelector.c) > - libgnomevfs-2.so is used by AWT (?) / NIO (to detect mime-type from a > filename) > (see jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/nio/fs/GnomeFileTypeDetector.c) > - libgnome-2.so is used by AWT (to open a URL in default browser) > (see jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/xawt/awt_Desktop.c) > >> This can be a problem for all the persons (like me) having a Gnome free >> system (l currently use LXDE, but the same problem exists for KDE user >> too). >> Someone suggested us we can use openjdk-7-jre-headless, but this is a >> non-solution, because openjdk-7-jdk depends by openjdk-7-jre (and the >> same is for eclipse and other tools). > > I understand your issue. > >> My suggestion is to move the gnome related deps as Suggested/Reccomend, >> so for who want a Gnome free system can leave such dependences unsatisfied. > > I'll give it a try to downgrade this to Recommends level. I have to check > that > openjdk code fail gracefully when those libs are not installed.
I'm not keen on this downgrade. I think there is at least one issue which wants to have a -jdk-headless package. However this needs an update for update-java-alternatives as well. Any volunteer to work on this? Matthias _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openjdk Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openjdk More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
