Bug#342341: eclipse: too many unneeded dependencies

[Michael Koch]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 11:55:15AM +0100, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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> Erwan David wrote:
> > Yasd that would make easier for me to explain that eclipse is a
> > windows only thing
> > 
> > If you choose to make yoursellf dependant on people who claim that
> > "microsoft waéy is the only way to use a computer",be logical and make
> > windows only software.
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> I can't beleive it!
> 
> Now for the constructive thing: Michael, what do you think about tagging
> wontfix or closing the bug; Erwan, provide a patch to Eclipse upstream
> or to the Debian package to get rid of this 'evil' dependency and
> Michael will see if it's possible to apply your patch.

This bug is already closed.

If there is a constructive patch which is not too hard to maintain and
is not too intrusive to change Eclipse' behavior drastically I will
apply it for sure.

With a constructive argument or a patch this bug should be reopened.


Cheers,
Michael
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