Bug#342341: eclipse: too many unneeded dependencies

[Billy Biggs]

On 14-Dec-05, at 3:32 AM, Erwan David wrote:

>> 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.

   It needs Mozilla for the embedded browser, as it uses the Gecko
embedding API.  Erwan is correct that if this is not available, the
help system will launch in an external web browser.  However, this is
a degredation of functionality.  We would like all distributions to
ship an embeddable mozilla, or the xulrunner Mozilla runtime.

   Erwan: do you understand what I am saying?

   -Billy