Bug#342341: eclipse: too many unneeded dependencies

Erwan David erwan at rail.eu.org
Wed Dec 14 08:32:11 UTC 2005


Le Wed 14/12/2005, Michael Koch disait

> I would like that you check the facts before writing such words.
> 
> You are free not to use the Eclipse packaged by Debian but e.g. the Help
> system which is a vital system for some users will not work. Other
> thinks don't work either. Upstream Eclipse 3.1.1 don't works with free
> java runtimes at all because of broken memory management in JDT.

It works perfectly without mozilla. It needs a browser but that's why
every browser package has a Provides: www-browser, so the dependency
should be on www-browser, not mozilla-browser.

And that doies not explain th gnome dependency, which is heavier, and
tottaly inadequate and, I repeat DANGEROUS.

-- 
Erwan David




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