FS#8315 - jre / jdk should not depend on gcc

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Martin Imobersteg (bugix) - Monday, 15 October 2007, 17:18 GMT
Last edited by Jason Chu (jason) - Sunday, 30 March 2008, 09:22 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jason Chu (jason)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
Java jre / jdk have gcc as a dependencie. Depending only on gcc-libs would be much better.

Additional info:
jre 6u3-1
jdk 6u3-1

Steps to reproduce:
pacman -S jre
This task depends upon

Closed by  Jason Chu (jason)
Sunday, 30 March 2008, 09:22 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed in 6u5
Comment by Hussam Al-Tayeb (hussam) - Tuesday, 16 October 2007, 20:41 GMT
There are other applications with the same issue.
csup gc hunspell libsmbios libwpd mesa musicbrainz prozilla taglib xorg-server xulrunner
All of these depend on gcc instead of gcc-libs. There might be others but these are the ones I have installed.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 18 October 2007, 02:38 GMT
I think there is substantially more...

> cd /var/abs
> grep -R -e "depends=" * | grep "gcc" | grep -v -e "gcc-libs" -e "gcc-fortran" -e "gcc-gcj" | wc -l
125
Comment by Martin Imobersteg (bugix) - Friday, 26 October 2007, 20:58 GMT
Down to 124 as of today. At least there's some progress :-/

Comment by Martin Imobersteg (bugix) - Friday, 09 November 2007, 19:03 GMT
Still 115 left. Seems nobody cares, as packages get rebuilt but the gcc dep is left in. Ok, I'll stop bitching now.
Comment by Greg (dolby) - Wednesday, 05 December 2007, 19:10 GMT
maybe the maintainers of these packages should be notified to start rebuilding them ? taking their time of course .. IIRC phraktured had mentioned something about an [extra] rebuild now that (most) of the [core] stuff is done in the arch-dev-public mailing list
Comment by Martin Imobersteg (bugix) - Monday, 18 February 2008, 17:25 GMT
Any news? Maybe remove the dependency together with the bump to version 6u4 which is out for a month now and fixes some security issues an some 370 other bugs?

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