Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 00:12:38 +0200 From: Roman Kennke <roman@ontographics.com> To: openoffice@freebsd.org Subject: ugly Java dependency in OOo Message-ID: <1091225558.3120.19.camel@moonlight>
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Hi there, I just wanted to build OOo from ports and found that it depends on the FreeBSD native JDK. The problem I see here is, that this requires me to agree to the Sun Community Source License, which is indeed a very crazy license. I worked around this by just symlinking /usr/local/linux-sun-jdk1.4.2 to /usr/local/jdk1.4.2 and it works equally well. So why not make the OOo port depends on that JDK? Or even better: on the Blackdown-Linux-JDK, so that the user doesn't have to be interrupted and required to download an installer? Of course, I think the best thing would be to leave out these Java dependencies altogether. This is what Debian and Fedora people do. They have patches for that. But for now, I propose to change dependencies on jdk14 to linux-sun-jdk14, which is no big deal IMO, since building jdk14 also requires the linux-jdk. Kind regards, Roman
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