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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:51:42 +0100
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On Monday 15 Aug 2011 12:21:13 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> > I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3
> > & found it wants to install a long list of deps,
> > many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag.
> > As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs
> > to see which were part of Java & why they seemed to be needed.
> > Not a few proved to be unnecessary today,
> > but the rest depend on 4 underlying pkgs,
> > ie Libreoffice Cups Libidn (for KDE 3 , which I want) Db (for
> > Libreoffice).
> >=20
> > If I remove 'java' from make.conf ,
> > which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ?
> > Is there anything else I've overlooked ?
>=20
> You'll lose the ability to run java applets, commonly found on the web
> for many critical things.
Unless you care to explain what you define as a web "critical" thing, I wil=
l=20
continue to run my boxen without Java - just as I have been doing for at le=
ast=20
8 years so far ... ;-)
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Regards,
Mick
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