On 5/13/2012 12:28 PM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Hi Installation of openjdk-6-jdk in wheezy i386 would lead to deletion of much gnome, including openoffice, with reinstallation of gnome and abiword, but not of openoffice/libreoffice, if I understand. Otherwise, java is often useful. Any suggestion about? thanks francesco pietra
I have long ago switched fron Sun java to OpenJdk, and had no such trouble. I do recall some dependency hell issues with some other packages, but turning off "Consider recommended packages as dependencies" in Synaptic fixed most of those.
I reckon the problem could be OpenOffice anyway; some dependency of some bit of it may require both java and a particular version of GNOME.
Some Gnome packages are not strictly necessary, as they are meta packages. Removing some of those will not grossly affect Gnome.