[gentoo-java] java.eclass needs to RDEPEND on java-config

[gentoo-java] java.eclass needs to RDEPEND on java-config

[Joshua Nichols]

For bug 118651 [1], the user was experiencing problems with binary 
packages because java-config is in DEPEND, not RDEPEND, which wouldn't 
be brought in as a dependency for a binary install.

The user had suggested putting this in the particular ebuild's RDEPEND. 
However, this would affect all JDKs and JREs. So instead, I propose 
putting java-config in DEPEND and RDEPEND of java.eclass, which all JDKs 
and JREs should be inheriting. The ebuilds would then need to be updated 
to not DEPEND on java-config.

Would there be any problem with doing this? If not, is there a minimal 
version of java-config that should be used? sun-jdk depends on >= 1.2, 
ibm-jdk-bin depends on >= 0.2.5, and blackdown-jdk depends on >= 1.2.11, 
so I'm not sure which one should be used.

- Josh
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Re: [gentoo-java] java.eclass needs to RDEPEND on java-config

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

Joshua Nichols wrote:

> The user had suggested putting this in the particular ebuild's RDEPEND.
> However, this would affect all JDKs and JREs. So instead, I propose
> putting java-config in DEPEND and RDEPEND of java.eclass, which all JDKs
> and JREs should be inheriting. The ebuilds would then need to be updated
> to not DEPEND on java-config.
> 
> Would there be any problem with doing this? If not, is there a minimal
> version of java-config that should be used? sun-jdk depends on >= 1.2,
> ibm-jdk-bin depends on >= 0.2.5, and blackdown-jdk depends on >= 1.2.11,
> so I'm not sure which one should be used.

1.2.11-r1 is ~alpha, but apart from that, I don't see why depending on
it in java would be a problem. Thomas?

-- Karl T
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