On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Caolán McNamara wrote: >> >> >> Because we could probably get rid of those requires if we need to. We >> removed and converted a lot of stuff away from java since the time the >> original requires were added, though it is convenient from the >> perspective of supporting manually added extensions to know that java is >> installed. I guess we're already compromised in the sense that we now >> only know for sure that at least the headless variant is installed. > > > Yes, I think dropping the requires is a useful thing. A release note must > be added as a warning for users installing third party extensions that may > still rely on Java Well when someone installs a third party extension and have no java would libreoffice tell him to install java? If not things will just fail without an obvious reason making our product looks bad. So I disagree on it being a useful thing. We don't have to save every single megabyte no matter what. And no a release notes entry is not enough. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
