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 1QsvFR-0004Al-Aj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:22:25 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 06AE221C14E; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:22:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com (mail-pz0-f42.google.com [209.85.210.42]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EAD821C13D for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:21:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so2739075pzk.1 for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.18.21 with SMTP id v21mr1762570wfi.109.1313407277409; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:21:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] ([121.246.205.20]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s8sm221542wff.5.2011.08.15.04.21.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 15 Aug 2011 04:21:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E490129.1010502@nileshgr.com> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:51:13 +0530 From: Nilesh Govindarajan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110712 Thunderbird/5.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ? References: <20110815111755.GE3102@ca.inter.net> In-Reply-To: <20110815111755.GE3102@ca.inter.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: febfe67fa3d1347ab851544c58eff4bd 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. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com