Subject: Re: USE_JAVA and sun-jre
To: Alistair Crooks <agc@pkgsrc.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 04/24/2001 10:28:09
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Alistair Crooks wrote:

> > 		DEPENDS+=               {sun-jre,jdk}-*:../../lang/jdk
> >
> > 	unfortunately if you have sun-jre installed without sun-jdk
> > 	you can't install at least jdbc-postgres and tomcat-jakarta
> > 	as they fail due to the missing javac.
> >
> > 	Does anyone have any objections to me changing the above to
> > 	{sun-jdk,jdk}?
>
> On my dmz machines, I really, really don't want a javac on there (or
> any compiler for that matter).  Thus, I install packages on my dmz
> machines using binary packages, and get around things that way, since
> I only need the databases, jdbc drivers and "java" on there.

	Hmm - how about adding
	BUILD_DEPENDS+=               {sun-jdk,jdk}-*:../../lang/jdk

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