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 1R2dWi-00036B-6R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:28:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2848D21C11B; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca (smtp-relay1b.uniserve.ca [216.210.109.129]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB0F621C0A0 for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:26:37 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=uniserve.com; s=2010; h=In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:To:From:Date; bh=DObTPFt2aH5FvWB+qk7SuUM6yCdPOnHzijJ8+tPJ8CI=; b=i09MLRlzGL1qJUAOwFg6TmCqOUMaRSq902GTmTr/biUEZaJ+jGjBVHjGVW9OgLLrm26jrq/J7R6phyhy1xy1KkrpCVkvfnCu30DseHXhb9RIjvR1ccyyYcbahmr8FR4X; Received: from ip-114.62.99.216.dsl-cust.ca.inter.net ([216.99.62.114] helo=ca.inter.net) by smtp-relay1.uniserve.ca with smtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R2dUy-00019H-16 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:26:37 -0700 Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:26:35 -0400 Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:26:35 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe? Message-ID: <20110911062635.GA3066@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: 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: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Sender-Info: purslow@ca.inter.net X-Scanner: OK. Scanned. X-Uniserve-Spam-Score: 0.1 1 (/) X-Uniserve-Spam-Report: Content analysis details: (0.1 points) pts rule name description ---- ---------------------- -------------------------------------------------- 0.1 RDNS_DYNAMIC Delivered to trusted network by host with dynamic-looking rDNS X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ee915440066bd611d62f8cac22840858 110910 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I converted two machines from icedtea (java6) to oracle-jdk-bin (java7). > I did in effect > emerge --depclean icedtea icedtea-web =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 > On one machine portage now claims that I basically don't need java > (see the output of --depclean below). Can this be right? > > dev-java/ant-nodeps > selected: 1.8.1 > protected: none > omitted: none *** remainder snipped *** I recently removed Java from my system: all I seem to have lost is direct access to the help files in LibreOffice, which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. You can check each package in your list with 'emerge -cpv ' & see what it says requires it: if they only support one another, you can fairly safely remove them all. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca