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110815 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: |
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> On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 |
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>> & found it wants to install a long list of deps, |
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>> many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. |
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>> As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs |
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>> to see which were part of Java & why they seemed to be needed. |
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>> Not a few proved to be unnecessary today, |
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>> but the rest depend on 4 underlying pkgs, |
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>> ie Libreoffice Cups Libidn (for KDE 3 , which I want) Db (for Libreoffice). |
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>> If I remove 'java' from make.conf , |
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>> which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ? |
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>> Is there anything else I've overlooked ? |
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> You'll lose the ability to run java applets, |
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> commonly found on the web for many critical things. |
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Well, I don't use Libreoffice or Cups to access the WWW |
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nor do I use KDE3 for more than a couple of games: |
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I manage my desktop with Fluxbox & have some KDE4 apps installed. |
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What am I going to need Java applets for ? |
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Any other comments ? |
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