[Slackbuilds-users] openjdk was: Re: Updates - 20170225.1

[Tim Dickson]

On 26/02/2017 08:13, B Watson wrote:
> On 2/25/17, Christoph Willing <chris.willing at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>
>> Apart from the complication of downloading the Oracle jdk, building it
>> (repackaging it) seems simpler, not to mention much faster.
>>
>> Any other views on using openjdk* instead of jdk as requirement for
>> LibreOffice?
> I haven't really got a horse in this race (have never used LibreOffice),
> but I'm full of ideas. Which you can ignore, if you think they're bad
> ideas (I won't be offended).
>
> What's needed is a way to say "either-or" in REQUIRES. Which isn't
> likely to happen (nobody wants the added complexity, for good & valid
> reasons). So instead...
>
> You could leave both jdk and openjdk out of REQUIRES, and in the README
> say "For a full-featured LibreOffice build, you will require either jdk
> or openjdk8". For bonus points, have the script auto-detect which is
> installed and use that. If neither is installed, act as though JAVA=no
> was set.
>
> Is it even possible to install both jdk and openjdk8 without them
> stepping on each other? If so, the user should be able to set JAVA=jdk
> or JAVA=openjdk8, and if he doesn't, and both are installed, I guess
> give precedence to jdk.
>
> For more bonus points, make the slack-desc say:
>
> This package was built with %JAVA%.
>
> ...and instead of "cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc", do this:
>
> sed "s,%JAVA%,$JAVA," $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
>
> Where JAVA is set to one of "jdk", "openjdk8", or "no Java support". I
> do this in quite a few of my own builds, if only to help myself keep
> track of what options a package was built with.
>
> Whether this is actually a good idea depends on exactly what functionality
> is missing from LibreOffice if it's built without Java. I have no idea,
> but not having one or the other in REQUIRES is going to lead to a lot
> of non-README-reading users building without it.

without java support macro's (and accessibility functions) don't work, 
as macros are based on the java types exposed to libre basic/python etc.

> Another facet: some people will prefer openjdk because of
> licensing. People who care about the "Libre" in the LibreOffice name
> might care about this.
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