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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 18:49:06 +0200
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Am Montag 15 August 2011, 13:51:42 schrieb Mick:
> 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).
> > >
> > > If I remove 'java' from make.conf ,
> > > which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ?
> > > Is there anything else I've overlooked ?
> >
> > 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 will
> continue to run my boxen without Java - just as I have been doing for at
> least 8 years so far ... ;-)
some people use lynx or w3m on a virtual terminal and are happy. That does not
make them a good example of usual user behaviour.
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