Eclipse package dependencies

[Andrew Jarrett]

On 5/3/07, Jochen Wurster <jochen.wurster at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> why does the eclipse package(s) depend on gij (GNU Java)? IMHO Sun Java 6
> would be a better choice.
> I am using Kubuntu 7.04.
>
> Bye Jochen
>
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IANAE, but it may have to do with the fact that java is not completely
free (as in speech) software yet.   It is just an educated guess, but
they may have wanted to support gij because it is part of the
completely free gcj project.

Andrew