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 1QswGd-00026n-9e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:27:43 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CD02B21C195; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:27:28 +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 C120521C18B for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:26:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwf25 with SMTP id 25so4167281wwf.10 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:26:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=/lIUjfnGI3hypdNHkKxULEI9vAMacHxlGaTETitjjKk=; b=Jvn5LMLxG2Rb0dDv1Tv8x1OZ7SvceRu8zKT3GYwCRRKSaqcCLc7bV9g36gG2VGIHRv lL+x+MCaxZ6D0MU4jAVM9NBv7NxnNwW5LXSUMpna27nsSpIVtxPbnTjbtaPe/KVVjzxS TBcPq/KSI8D+xE25T2POb6fLEIexbERRydm3s= Received: by 10.227.42.132 with SMTP id s4mr3351136wbe.100.1313411191905; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:26:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fr7sm4525611wbb.5.2011.08.15.05.26.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 05:26:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Philip Webb Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ? Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 14:26:11 +0200 Message-ID: <2013503.vzJbgkSEzO@nazgul> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.0 (Linux/2.6.39-ck-r2; KDE/4.7.0; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20110815111755.GE3102@ca.inter.net> References: <20110815111755.GE3102@ca.inter.net> 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 08d05508b3b96ac0af9d34c4e21e66d4 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