Re: [gentoo-science] [sage-on-gentoo] Sage without Java

["François Bissey" <frp.bissey@gmail.com>]

Hi Vladimir,

This is unfortunately due to sage’s direct dependency to “jmol”
(sage-jmol-bin these days) it used to be only a dependency 
through the sage-notebook with the flag java. But sage uses jmol
directly for 3D plots as its default backend. I, and others -
including the people maintaining sage in debian - wish it weren’t
so :( Mostly because we have a very low opinion about jmol from
a packaging perspective.
It may be possible to use something else for 3D plots and make
jmol optional but that’s work I am not quite ready to commit to.

François

> On 13/01/2018, at 21:39, v_2e@ukr.net wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Today I noticed that upgrading sci-mathematics/sage pulls the Java
> development kit. Is there a way to install Sage without all that
> Java-related stuff if I do not wish to have that on my system?
> 
> Regards,
>  Vladimir
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