Hi Michele, Sorry for the delay of taking care of #661465 (I was working on other FOSS projects...).
Le mardi 17 avril 2012 18:08:28, Michele Renda a écrit : > The main problem is that the package openjdk-7-jre depends by some Gnome > related stuff, like gconf, libgnome2-0, libgnomevfs2-0, etc. JFTR, those depends are actually used by real code from openjdk : - libgconf-2.so is used by OpenJDK to detect current proxy configuration from gnome (see jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/net/spi/DefaultProxySelector.c) - libgnomevfs-2.so is used by AWT (?) / NIO (to detect mime-type from a filename) (see jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/nio/fs/GnomeFileTypeDetector.c) - libgnome-2.so is used by AWT (to open a URL in default browser) (see jdk/src/solaris/native/sun/xawt/awt_Desktop.c) > This can be a problem for all the persons (like me) having a Gnome free > system (l currently use LXDE, but the same problem exists for KDE user > too). > Someone suggested us we can use openjdk-7-jre-headless, but this is a > non-solution, because openjdk-7-jdk depends by openjdk-7-jre (and the > same is for eclipse and other tools). I understand your issue. > My suggestion is to move the gnome related deps as Suggested/Reccomend, > so for who want a Gnome free system can leave such dependences unsatisfied. I'll give it a try to downgrade this to Recommends level. I have to check that openjdk code fail gracefully when those libs are not installed. Cheers, -- Damien - Debian Developper http://wiki.debian.org/DamienRaudeMorvan
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