On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 05:08:45AM +1100, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Wednesday 30 January 2008 04:11, Matthew Johnson wrote:
> [snip a lot of good stuff I agree with]
> > A much better solution would be to define a better set of virtual
> > packages. I would go with:
> >
> > - lowest common denominator (essentially the _intersection_ of Java
> > 1.4 and whatever java-gcj-compat supports)
> > Every RE can provide this.
> > - sun java 1.5-derived
> > This would be provided by sun*jre, icedtea, anything produced
> > by java-package.
> >
> > Possibly java-runtime and java5-runtime?
> >
> > Packages would then either depend on: java-gcj-compat | java-runtime OR
> > {icedtea,sun-java5-jre} | java5-runtime
>
> If you are going to rework the virtual packages, please consider adding
> -nox packages so that java{,5}-runtime can depend the appropriate X windows
> packages, and server apps that don't need X windows can depend on
> java{,5}-runtime-nox.
The X packages should only be in Recommends and its possible to not
install Recommends (but you are expected you are knowing what you are
doing).
Cheers,
Michael
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