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Re: What is the best java for debian-amd64 ?



On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 16:19 -0300, Fabricio Cannini - Yahoo wrote:
> On Thursday 18 September 2008 15:05:17 Stephen Olander-Waters wrote:
> > Allow me to unrecommend Blackdown JRE 1.4.2. Unfortunately, the
> > maintainers of xul-runner have seen fit to conflict with every version
> > of jre 1.4.2.
> >
> > Your choices are to force reinstallation of Blackdown 1.4.2 after every
> > dist-upgrade or install it outside of package management.
> >
> > Those of us stuck with legacy applications on modern OS's are in a bind
> > with this situation.
> >
> > -s
> 
> Hi Stephen!
> 
> Have you tried to use  /etc/apt/preferences' do disallow apt-get/aptitude of 
> uninstalling Blackdown's jre ?

No. I did not think that worked for conflicting packages. I thought it
would make xulrunner uninstall or disable dist-upgrading.

Is that not true?
-s



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