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

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

2004-01-21 Thread Dalibor Topic
Hi Josh, josh buhl wrote: well, this is always going to be a problem. i don't see how you can remove the dummy packages without causing headaches for everybody who wants to use Sun's j2sdk or j2re (or any other non debian jvm or whatever). you need a dummy package to tell other debian packages