Bug#362769: kaffe-pthreads: do not depend on gjdoc

Mon May 15 05:07:29 UTC 2006

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:22:27PM +0200, Arnaud Vandyck wrote:
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> tags 362769 + wontfix
> thank
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> Michael Prokop wrote:
> > I would really appreciate if I don't have to install gjdoc if I only
> > want to use kaffe[-pthreads] itself.
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> I understand your POV but we package kaffe as a complete development
> environment. That's why you have ecj, rmic, fastjar and gjdoc.
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> If you want only a JVM, an only a JVM, you can install gij, cacao,
> jamvm, sablevm, ...
> 
> I don't think it's a bug, I see this as a feature ;-)

A problem is that this creates a circular dependency which can make
kaffe+gjdoc uninstallable under some circumstances...

Michael
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