Bug#439184: seemingly unneeded depends pulled in when installing eclipse-cdt
Thomas Girard
thomas.g.girard at free.fr
Sun Sep 2 13:29:31 UTC 2007
retitle 439184 split eclipse-cdt into eclipse-cdt and eclipse-cdt-sdk
thanks
Hello,
thanks for your report and the nice diagram.
> I was just trying to install eclipse-cdt from aptitude and discovered that it
> tried to pull in many more packages than needed.
> Currently I have eclipse-cdt installed from tar balls from the Eclipse
> website. The minimum I needed to install was the
>
> + Platform Runtime Binary (eclipse-platform-3.2.2-linux-gtk.tar.gz)
> + CDT (org.eclipse.cdt-3.1.2-linux.x86.tar.gz)
>
> Also already installed are Debian packages for Java, GTK2, and other things
> which I may have needed, but were already installed.
> I've been having a look at the dependencies in Debian's eclipse-cdt, trying
> to figure out why so many things are being pulled in. I don't know much
> about packaging and what is or is not included implicitly in the Eclipse.org
> packages, so don't be surprised if I say things which don't make sense!
> (Finally to concrete suggestions:)
> Does "eclipse-platform" need to depend on "eclipse-rcp"? On the eclipse.org
> webpage it appears as though the "RCP Runtime Binary" is a plugin, so it
> should depend on "eclipse-platform" rather than the other way around. I've
> attached a picture of the dependencies which seem to be indicated by the
> webpage
> http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/R-3.3-200706251500/details.php
> Also, I don't have libjsch-java, liblucene-java*, libtomcat* installed and my
> CDT works fine. Perhaps these are included in one of the two Eclipse.org
> packages I've installed as indicated above? Or perhaps they are not needed
> by eclipse-cdt (and shouldn't be pulled in with eclipse-platform)? Maybe the
> above (especially libtomcat*) should be depended on by eclipse-jdt
> and/or -pde and/or -rcp, but not -cdt?
I have discussed this with the Debian Eclipse maintainers. It turns out
that you don't need libjsch, libtomcat and liblucene when using upstream
eclipse-platform because they are indeed included in the
eclipse-platform tarball.
The current eclipse-platform <-> eclipse-rcp dependency might be wrong,
but inverting it would create a new dependency nightmare.
Regards,
Thomas
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