Re: Bug#156407: ITP: free-java-sdk -- Complete Java SDK environment consising of free Java tools
On Mon, 12 Aug 2002, Steve Greenland wrote:
> On 12-Aug-02, 14:22 (CDT), Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> wrote:
> > On 12 Aug 2002, Grzegorz Prokopski wrote:
> >
> > > W li¶cie z pon, 12-08-2002, godz. 18:13, Adam Heath pisze:
> > > > Er, you say free, but are restricting me to only use what is listed in the
> > > > depends.
> >
> > So, what about kaffe? What about gcj? Why are you saying that sable is
> > better than these others?
>
> Maybe he's experimented with them and discovered that sable is the
> best/easiest/whatever works for him. Maybe he likes the name. Maybe the
> sable people are paying him off.
So use virtual packages, which other packages provide, and which this new
package depends on.
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