Rene Engelhard schrieb: > >> which in turn puls libgcj and all its dependencies. I already have a >> java-runtime installed and don't want an additional java-runtime. > > And java-gcj-compat (and therefore gij) is the default runtime on sid. > The rest (sun?) is not even in Debian. There are others (sablevm, kaffee). sun-java(5,6)-jre are in non-free. >> Either, openoffice.org-officebean also supports alternate java-runtimes >> (like Sun's) or the Depends: openoffice.org-officebean in openoffice.org > > Sun JDK is not in main, so no option for this. I'll add icedtea/openjdk > support when it's there, though. I was more thinking about openoffice.org-officebean depending on java-runtime(1,2) and not on a particular. >> I don't think, that a standard OO.o user needs to embed OO.o into java >> applications. > > Yes, I do, too, but recent discussions showed that it's a problem if > openoffice.org is not depending on it. > > See: > > http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=809 > http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=810 > http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=811 > http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=812 > http://extensions.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=dev&msgNo=813 These discussion only show (to me), that openoffice.org-dev ! should probably depend on openoffice.org-officebeans but not the office suite itself. Only Developers need that. The vast majority of the users is forced to install an additional 50 MB and will never need this kind of functionality. > CC'ing jsc. jsc, please keep Michael and 439287@bugs.debian.org in Cc. > > I finally thought about it and came with the compromise that I'll let > the metapackage depend on openoffice.org-officebean so it gets installed > when someone installs the metapackage (but not put it into -core > or make -core depend on it so people who don't it don't *need to* install > it) > > "openoffice.org" ist just a metapackage fwiw, so if you don't want > officebean you just can install all the modules without -officebean. I know that openoffice.org is a metapackage but selecting each modules on their own is cumbersome. Why is Recommends or Suggests not an option? (I personally would vote for Suggests). Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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