Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java-runtime

2017-08-24 Thread Bas Couwenberg
On 2017-08-24 16:15, Carnë Draug wrote: Thank you for the answer but I still don't understand. I get how the use of virtual packages for java-runtime allows one to choose OpenJDK or Oracle JDK. What I don't understand is the default-jre *and* java-runtime. Actually, I don't understand the defa

Re: Why dependency on both default-jre and java-runtime

2017-08-24 Thread Carnë Draug
On 23 August 2017 at 21:43, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017, Carnë Draug wrote: > >> However, java-runtime packages are virtual packages provided by >> default-jre so I don't understand why. Could anyone clarify? > > They are also provided by openjdk-*-jre, so you can, for example, >