[arch-general] libre office java support

Dennis Beekman d.c.beekman.devel at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 03:16:30 EDT 2011


On 04/12/2011 10:01 PM, Richard Schütz wrote:
> Am 12.04.2011 21:54, schrieb Dennis Beekman:
>> Libre Office seems to depend on the openjdk6 package but this package
>> doesn't support applets in firefox and therefore i use the jre & jdk
>> packages instead.
>>
>> When i installed the latest updates wich included Libre Office it
>> removed the jre package in favor of the openjdk6 package.
>> I have forced pacman to remove to openjdk package and install the jre
>> and jdk packages instead... and Libre Office works fine (i see no
>> diffirence at least).
>>
>> Is there any specific reason for Libre Office to use openjdk6 ? and can
>> we perhaps change this to jre/jdk instead ?
>>
>>
>
> libreoffice depends on java-runtime, which is no real package. 
> java-runtine is provided by the openjdk6 and jre package, so it does 
> not matter which you use.
>
I suspected as much when both packages seemed to work :-)
but can we change the Libre Office packages to depend upon JRE instead ?
Openjdk6 is missing a lot of functionality such as browser support, JRE 
would be a better choice..


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