Le 07/10/2012 12:04, David Sjölin a écrit :

But when I try to install ant it has a dependency on openjdk 1.5, 1.6 or
1.7. Would it be possible to setup the dependencies so it checks PATH
for existing java-versions instead? I can override the paths so it uses
Sun Java, but it would be simpler if it was possible to install Sun Java
before installing ant and then not install OpenJDK?

While technically possible, using file dependencies seems a bad idea here, because they have their own limitations. And more generally, the whole idea of altering our packages to allow better interaction with non-packaged or foreign-controlled stuff defeat the whole purpose of a self-contained distribution.

Just remove openjdk using rpm --nodeps option. Or better, build your own empty package, providing the missing dependencies (java, jre) as virtual packages. I wonder if we could add some kind of --ignore-dependency option to urpmi to achieve the same result.