From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QsweQ-0003qL-In for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:52:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DAC321C1B2; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:52:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BCFB21C1A3 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:51:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so4185210wwf.10 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:51:11 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:reply-to:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=dRN9V/+SHKXyDVpzHmeZEMqV2D/wu5YDW0scj1zz7vw=; b=K5ygvYYw5ThmdjMT5cfaz8Q0mtPhVEHCv9UHgFuHt0G3APRmBnYJaU0r19rRYV0kRm VVf2LPbtdZgPCosgX4Pb8eoJ/hINGaufDnjOfm4XcXEPYVyBEiEekoADpdZmyFLkRiEr QQoBzJBrR/Da9nMCzvk9ofHOFvXwAUVIY61Vo= Received: by 10.216.229.4 with SMTP id g4mr2127726weq.58.1313412671440; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dell_xps.localnet ([213.123.142.221]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id el9sm4538587wbb.24.2011.08.15.05.51.08 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:51:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ? Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:51:42 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r3; KDE/4.6.5; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110815111755.GE3102@ca.inter.net> <4E490129.1010502@nileshgr.com> In-Reply-To: <4E490129.1010502@nileshgr.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1622168.2TO33DkB33"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201108151351.54490.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: eab03152814d63064da1709f1323b02f --nextPart1622168.2TO33DkB33 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 ... ;-) =2D-=20 Regards, Mick --nextPart1622168.2TO33DkB33 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAk5JFmoACgkQVTDTR3kpaLZgJgCgpjRzgxsF8lAIoU4Q+579ZHuP PjsAnRcfYvsnAgCEtI5fzdamaQxoB4xk =Ge4T -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1622168.2TO33DkB33--