On Wed, 2017 Mar 29 09:58+0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: > > Or one can Recommends: it in libreoffice. Yeah.
Well, I guess that would let me do what I originally wanted... # apt-get install libreoffice libreoffice-java-common- (note the minus at the end) to install LibreOffice without the Java stuff, even if a JRE is already installed. > And what if they decide to remove it later? And autoremove kicks in? > They will have their stuff break suddenly. If they remove packages that provide X, then things that require X will break. This is a fact of the universe, people have to learn this sooner or later. > Still that is not obvious, and even newbies sometimes get told you > disable Recommends: install.. That was *your* argument when we came up > with -base-drivers and -sdbc-hsqldb. If they disable Recommends:, then they don't get the JRE, and Java stuff breaks anyway. The only way to change this is to make "libreoffice" hard- depend on a JRE, and (thankfully) you've already said that you don't want this. > I will _think_ about just Recommending java-common. It may not be the cleanest solution IMO, but this would be enough to make LO installation sane for me. > But that is it. In no way will every Java dependency move to java- > common (and that is what this bug is about, if you wanted > something else you would have written something else), because > that would be bogus. Given your role as maintainer of the LO beast, I thought you would want to simplify the dependency tree as much as possible. > And this will be my last mail to this "bug". That is okay with me. Cheers, --Daniel -- Daniel Richard G. || sk...@iskunk.org My ASCII-art .sig got a bad case of Times New Roman.