The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 20, 2014 21:29 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: The Debian init system general resolution returns by mathstuf
Parent article: The Debian init system general resolution returns

> If I followed that strictly, things like Java and Mono would never be on many of my systems. Luckily, Mono seems to be pretty stalled AFAICT, but Java is required for LibreOffice. And rewriting it in some other system is not an option. Would it make sense for me to go to LibreOffice and demand they stop using Java because I don't want it dragged in by dependencies?

Actually, the LO devs (and I should know, I'm involved in it) ARE rewriting LO to remove the Java dependency. Incidentally, if you do build LO --without-java, pretty much the only thing that will break is Base.

Cheers,
Wol

The Debian init system general resolution returns

Posted Oct 26, 2014 19:23 UTC (Sun) by HelloWorld (guest, #56129) [Link]

Yup, and the best they could come up with to replace Java is… Python, of all things. What a blunder!