Comment 4 for bug 257402

Matthias,

The reason I moved bsh-gcj to suggests is that having it in recommends will pull complete gcj runtime where as user is likely to already have default-jre i.e. openjdk.

Those who want performance can always install the package manually. But casual users, who is unlikely to turn off the option 'Recommends by default', may not know why they are getting two java environments.

We discussed possibility of moving -gcj packages to suggests for all the java libraries in today's java meeting. And of course your feedback is important. Let's discuss this sometime in next week in #ubuntu-java.