On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Leslie P. Polzer <sky@viridian-project.de> wrote:
Hello everyone,
Rorschach has asked me to bring the discussion at
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2033
to this mailing list.
Please help us find a consensus.
My answer to his last question is:
--- Let them install openjdk6 to provide the j2sdk dependency.
It's not the Arch philosophy to cut on freedom of choice.
By forcing a user to use either a free or proprietary alternative of a PROVIDES we ignore the purpose of this clause (i.e. providing freedom of choice). ---
Moreover I don't really see what's controversial here.
I'm a free software supporter myself, but I don't like forcing people to use it.
provides=j2sdk is the way that will hurt no party.
Thanks,
Leslie
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let it depend on java-environment. This is both provided by openjdk6 and the sun jdk package. Ronald