[aur-general] Java Dependency and Cross-Compilation Questions

[Eric Bélanger]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Heiko Baums <lists at baums-on-web.de> wrote:
> Am Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:45:06 -0500
> schrieb Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com>:
>
>> >> In this case, make it depends on jre.  You could put a note in the
>> >> PKGBUILD to explain this dependency.
>
> Btw., putting a note about a restricted dependency in the PKGBUILD is
> not the recommended way because the average user doesn't read the
> PKGBUILD if a binary package can't be installed due to a wrong
> dependency.
>
> Heiko
>

That proposed note was not intended for users but for other TU or devs
who might be tempted to "fix" the dependency by changing it to
java-runtime.