Re: java-virtual-machine-dummy and java2-runtime dependencies

2004-01-21 Thread josh buhl
Stefan Gybas wrote: You can use equivs for that. See README.Debian in java-common for details. very nice. i see that this does take care of the problem, but how are you going to get the user to know/do this, since when installing, all he sees is a error message reporting missing dependencies. th

Re: java-virtual-machine-dummy and java2-runtime dependencies

2004-01-21 Thread josh buhl
Stefan Gybas wrote: You can use equivs for that. See README.Debian in java-common for details. very nice. i see that this does take care of the problem, but how are you going to get the user to know/do this, since when installing, all he sees is a error message reporting missing dependencies. th

java-virtual-machine-dummy and java2-runtime dependencies

2004-01-21 Thread josh buhl
Stefan Gybas wrote: josh buhl wrote: Here's the deal: I have Sun's j2sdk1.4.2_01 installed. That pretty much takes care of all the java dependencies, but since it's not a debian package, none of the debian java stuff knows about it. I don't want to install any of the p