Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4344 mails)

[Shriramana Sharma <samjnaa@xxxxxxxxx>]

Andreas Jaeger wrote:

> > > > > > Debian? But Fedora is the same principle and it ships with OOo and
> > > > > > Java, IIRC...
> > > > > Fedora is building everything with gcj which we have not done yet,
> > > > What's gcj and is there a problem with us doing it also?
> > > GNU Java compiler.
> > > The compiler is not as mature as the SUN one but is really getting
> > > there.
> > Okay, that's said for Java. But why can't OOo be included? Isn't it 
> > released under GPL, free for anyone to recompile/include in their packages?
>
> OOo can be included - the problem is that OOo needs Java...  It does
> not make sense to install a package with a broken dependency,

I concur with the others when they say they've installed OOo without 
Java. (At least, I've done it on Win32.)

So:

1. Does OOo depend unavoidably on Java?

2. When gcj is up and satisfactorily running we'll have OOo and Java 
shipped?

3. Are OOo and Java the only two stumbling points?

4. If Fedora is using Java right now, why can't we?

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Shriramana Sharma
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