Hi

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 12:32 PM, Caolán McNamara  wrote:

Because we could probably get rid of those requires if we need to. We
removed and converted a lot of stuff away from java since the time the
original requires were added, though it is convenient from the
perspective of supporting manually added extensions to know that java is
installed. I guess we're already compromised in the sense that we now
only know for sure that at least the headless variant is installed.

Yes, I think dropping the requires is a useful thing.  A release note must be added as a warning for users installing third party extensions that may still rely on Java

Rahul