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[Matthias Klose <doko@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01.05.2012 22:56, Damien Raude-Morvan wrote:
> 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.

I'm not keen on this downgrade. I think there is at least one issue which wants
to have a -jdk-headless package. However this needs an update for
update-java-alternatives as well. Any volunteer to work on this?

  Matthias