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Comment 2 for bug 576952

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Niels Thykier (niels-thykier) wrote : Re: [Bug 576952] [NEW] Eclipse not depending on a jdk

Frank Groeneveld wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> Binary package hint: eclipse
>
> It seems wrong to me that I can run:
> apt-get install eclipse
> And I will end up with a "broken" Eclipse, namely one that can't compile anything, because only a JRE was installed, not JDK (so javac is missing).
>

Hi

I am thinking a Recommends is better here because it is possible to use
eclipse without a java compiler (especially if you are not using eclipse
for java).
  This would also make sense for eclipse-jdt, since some (language)
plugins depends on eclipse-pde and -pde depends on -jdt. But with a
Recommends, you will get the compiler by default (unless you explicitly
request apt-get not to get it).

~Niels