[arch-general] libre office java support

John K Pate j.k.pate at sms.ed.ac.uk
Wed Apr 13 03:48:53 EDT 2011


> >
> > 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..

As has been said before, they only depend on java-runtime. Install
whatever java-runtime you like, and you're set. Libreoffice packages do
not specifically rely on openjdk, only java-runtime.

John
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