[fedora-java] Re: why does openjdk need to depend on netbeans?

[Andrew Overholt]

* Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2008-12-20 04:58]:
> Andrew Overholt wrote:
> > * Harshad <harshad.rj at gmail.com> [2008-12-19 21:52]:
> >> Lillian Angel wrote:
> >>> This was discusssed in this thread, starting here:
> >>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-October/msg03014.html
> >> Thanks Lillian for the link. The reason why netbeans is a dependency is now clear.
> >>
> >> But the dependency on gcj is pulling in a huge download. Can someone
> >> tell why swing-layout requires java-gcj-compat and libgcj_bc.so.1?
> > 
> > Does swing-layout have gcj AOT bits?
> 
> Ah, perhaps this is because RPM adds auto-dependencies for AOT bits?

I think any package with AOT bits has the Requires(post) on j-g-c for
rebuild-gcj-db.  The .so dep is probably auto-generated, yes.

Andrew