From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3EB31388BF for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:44:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4D4B821C0A0; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0B20421C027; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:44:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from red.yakaraplc.local (host213-123-185-55.in-addr.btopenworld.com [213.123.185.55]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: chewi) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EB3BB340AFF; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:44:22 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 13:44:16 +0000 From: James Le Cuirot To: gentoo-dev Cc: ppc@gentoo.org, gentoo-powerpc@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Goodbye Java on ppc32? Message-ID: <20160112134416.3879fbe4@red.yakaraplc.local> In-Reply-To: <20160109231043.0388a802@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> References: <20160109231043.0388a802@symphony.aura-online.co.uk> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.13.1 (GTK+ 2.24.29; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 73b7585f-f6db-47f4-85db-4101a36d4217 X-Archives-Hash: 6c1ef0330e11d11d5ae79201f3ca716c On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:10:43 +0000 James Le Cuirot wrote: > I'm mulling over the idea of dropping Java on 32-bit ppc. Having > personally used Gentoo on this hardware myself in the past, I've > resisted the temptation to drop it sooner but I think it's time to > throw in the towel now. Since there hasn't been an outcry against this announcement so far, it's likely that I will proceed with it at the weekend. > There are probably some packages that aren't typically associated with > Java that will be affected by this. I haven't made a list but I > suspect it doesn't contain anything majorly important. Thankfully > LibreOffice no longer has a hard dependency on Java. The list of casualties can now be seen in: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/638 Other than some fairly obvious ones like Vuze and Tomcat, there aren't really any packages that I would consider majorly important being dropped. mysql-workbench is in the list but the latest ebuild has been adjusted to not depend on Java. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer