Versions prior to 4.0.2-3 did not have the hard-dependency of gcj to libgcjX-dev: From the changelog:
* Let gcj-4.0 depend on libgcj6-dev, instead of recommending it. This is not necessary for byte-code compilations, but for compilations to native code. For compilations to byte-code, use a better compiler like ecj for now (found in the ecj-bootstrap package). Maybe the package ecj-bootstrap (or ecj-bootstrap-gcj) would be enough for your needs. It does not have any dependency on X (hopefully now I'm right ;-)) -- gcj dependencies seem unreasonable https://launchpad.net/bugs/62483 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
