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#1 2009-05-31 10:13:58
- Llama
- Banned
- From: St.-Petersburg, Russia
- Registered: 2008-03-03
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Why does pdftk utility depend on a compiler (gcc-gcj)?
Hi,
My rather inocuous desire to install pdftk turns out to be not so inocuous after all 
:
# pacman -S pdftk
resolving dependencies...
error: cannot resolve "gcc-gcj", a dependency of "pdftk"
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: pdftk: requires gcc-gcj
gcc-gcj is to be found in the AUR; it's a huge thing, quite understandably, because it's a compiler. But why? Why should a utility depend on a compiler rather than a library?
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#2 2009-05-31 10:27:51
- Allan
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- From: Brisbane, AU
- Registered: 2007-06-09
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Re: Why does pdftk utility depend on a compiler (gcc-gcj)?
I haven't looked into it, but my guess is it can be built using "java-environment" and run with "java-runtime".
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