Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1188 mails)

[Dave Howorth <dhoworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Haller wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Jan 2012, David C. Rankin wrote:
> > Got it, thanks dnh. I took a stab at the report:
> >
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=742935
>
> Very good subject! :)
>
> > I'm hazy on the exact details, so please feel free to add where needed.
>
> You got it. I clarified it a little bit (but they'd have got that
> anyway).

I'm a bit confused about the proposed fix:

Richard Guenther
"Another question is whether anyone really needs anything besides the
core libgcj now that openJDK is the prefered Java stack.  I can split
libjawt and libgtkpeer to a different sub-package, but as they are
loaded dynamically at runtime no rpm dependencies will be ever
autogenerated, so all packages requiring them will have to explicitly
add a requirement.  I doubt that is what we want (silently breaking apps
using AWT).

"What's the state of Java in openSUSE?  Can we simply drop AWT support
from GCC libgcj (and thus also reduce the build dependencies of it?)."

Michal Vyskocil
"I would say yes - however this has to be checked first."


Am I right in thinking that the proposed fix is to remove AWT
altogether? How does that meet or exceed the criterion of not "silently
breaking apps using AWT"?
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