Problem with package removal...

Michael Tautschnig tautschn at model.in.tum.de
Sun Feb 18 19:20:43 CET 2007


> Henning Sprang wrote:
> >On 2/16/07, Carl J. Van Arsdall <cvanarsdall at mvista.com> wrote:
> >>Is there a way I can tell fai to only remove the packages I explicitly
> >>tell it to?
> >
> >Are you sure that the things you want to do work correctly, depency-wise?
> Well, they had for a long time anyhow.  Ant is a java package, and I 
> install java, I just don't know gnu java, I use sun java (which can't 
> live in the main apt repositories cause of the software license).  I 
> imagine that at one point in time, Ant wasn't dependent on gcj, but 
> perhaps they added it. 
>

Are you using the non-free sun-java5-* packages? I suppose they should properly
provide java-virtual-machine and the like, which ant depends on.

Best,
Michael


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