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 1R2xVm-0003GP-Tr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:48:52 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C4E521C1C5; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B32E721C106 for ; Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:46:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p8C3ktEN016574 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:46:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 08CF6700A0; Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:47:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove much of java. Is this safe? References: <20110911062635.GA3066@ca.inter.net> Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 23:47:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110911062635.GA3066@ca.inter.net> (Philip Webb's message of "Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:26:35 -0400") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ee22d8ec2becdc3ba2d80ff0d8ea4b59 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 ' > & 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