From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:26:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2013503.vzJbgkSEzO@nazgul> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110815111755.GE3102@ca.inter.net>
On Mon 15 August 2011 07:17:55 Philip Webb did opine thusly:
> 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).
>
> If I remove 'java' from make.conf ,
> which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ?
> Is there anything else I've overlooked ?
I removed java from my USE for LO (plus gnome and gtktoo) and have not
yet seen any ill-effects.
The last time I read a definitive statement on Java for OOo was early
in the 2.0 series, then it mentioned database connectivity as the
prime thing that used it. That's connectivity as in Base, the Access-
like db front-end thingy
--
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-15 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-15 11:17 [gentoo-user] who needs Java ? Philip Webb
2011-08-15 11:21 ` Nilesh Govindarajan
2011-08-15 12:30 ` Philip Webb
2011-08-15 12:51 ` Mick
2011-08-15 16:49 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-08-15 12:26 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-08-15 14:05 ` Philip Webb
2011-08-15 14:15 ` Florian Philipp
2011-08-17 14:35 ` Philip Webb
2011-09-04 20:39 ` Philip Webb
2011-08-15 15:39 ` Paul Hartman
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