[arch-dev-public] What to do with JRE and JDK?

[Eduardo Romero]

On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 20:44 -0400, Paul Mattal wrote:
> > Why on earth didn't we make a provides for this a while ago? I thought
> > we had done that.
> >
> > I feel like openjdk should provide 'jdk' at the least, no?
> 

Yep, it does proved jdk and jre as Paul explaings, but in the case of
new installs, eclipse asks for jdk as a dependency, so the user with a
new install with no java packages installed will get a dependency on jdk
and not openjdk6.

> I'm fairly sure we do. It's called "java-environment". The runtime is  
> "java-runtime".
> 
> So openjdk provides "java-environment" which it already does.
> 
> Eclipse for a long time required actual Sun jre to be built and was  
> tested with that. Now that it's being tested with openjdk6, it seems  
> like the reasonable time to make the switch to the new dependency. So  
> I'm planning to do that this weekend.
> 
> - P

Thanks Paul, I'm just waiting on this to amek the move.