Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:41:41PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: >> Joel Aelwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > The user has T installed, and types "apt-get install noteclipse". Since >> >> Does this also answer the case of Debian CDs? > > It answers it in precisely the same fashion that it answers the main > archive. If you have something installed which meets the dependancies > already, our tools do not, by default, install something *else* (say, > Kaffe) to try to meet them.
But the Debian CDs have nothing to do with the Depends-based tools. It's just a work containing copies of Kaffe and (soon) Eclipse in closer proximity than aggregation. > This does depend on the accuracy of the Depends line. If something > uses native (JNI) library calls that are not standardized across some > significantly-multiple set of JVMs, that Depends is not going to be correct > if it just says "kaffe | virtual-package-for-jvms", since most things that > provide the latter don't provide the necessary JNI calls. > > If it *is* accurate, that means the whole damned thing is programmed to an > API that is *not* owned by Kaffe (namely, the Java language standards), but > rather, is implemented by Kaffe, and this means it cannot be a derivative > work of Kaffe. It's not about a derivative work or ownership of an API. It's just about distributing copies of Kaffe with copies of non-GPL'd works. -Brian -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]