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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@g.o>
To: Joshua Nichols <nichoj@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Java <gentoo-java@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] java.eclass needs to RDEPEND on java-config
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 03:28:52
Message-Id: 43C9C1AA.1030408@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-java] java.eclass needs to RDEPEND on java-config by Joshua Nichols
1 Joshua Nichols wrote:
2
3 > The user had suggested putting this in the particular ebuild's RDEPEND.
4 > However, this would affect all JDKs and JREs. So instead, I propose
5 > putting java-config in DEPEND and RDEPEND of java.eclass, which all JDKs
6 > and JREs should be inheriting. The ebuilds would then need to be updated
7 > to not DEPEND on java-config.
8 >
9 > Would there be any problem with doing this? If not, is there a minimal
10 > version of java-config that should be used? sun-jdk depends on >= 1.2,
11 > ibm-jdk-bin depends on >= 0.2.5, and blackdown-jdk depends on >= 1.2.11,
12 > so I'm not sure which one should be used.
13
14 1.2.11-r1 is ~alpha, but apart from that, I don't see why depending on
15 it in java would be a problem. Thomas?
16
17 -- Karl T
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