Bug#342341: eclipse: too many unneeded dependencies

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:32:11AM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> 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.

Not all packages providing www-browser export the needed shared library
for the embedded browser in Eclipse, which is the default and preferred
way in Eclipse upstream as Billy wrote.
 
> And that doies not explain th gnome dependency, which is heavier, and
> tottaly inadequate and, I repeat DANGEROUS.

Eclipse doesn't depend on gnome, just on some libraries gnome provides.
Many applications do this. That is neither heavy nor totally inadequate.
Our goal is to make Eclipse ready-to-use after a simple

'apt-get install eclipse'

To make this happen we have to depend on some stuff that may not be
needed but is needed in the default configuration of Eclipse. When you
don't need this features, don't use them.

It is definitely NOT DANGEROUS. Data loss would be DANGEROUS.


Cheers,
Michael
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