From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:47:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9hb4ifml8.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110911062635.GA3066@ca.inter.net> (Philip Webb's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:26:35 -0400")
On Sun, Sep 11 2011, Philip Webb wrote:
> 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 <pkg>'
> & see what it says requires it: if they only support one another,
> you can fairly safely remove them all.
Thanks. I did the check and then let depclean remove them.
allan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-12 3:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-11 2:28 [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe? Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-11 6:26 ` Philip Webb
2011-09-12 3:47 ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2011-09-13 21:54 ` Jonathan
2011-09-14 0:58 ` Allan Gottlieb
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