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On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:10:43 +0000 |
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James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'm mulling over the idea of dropping Java on 32-bit ppc. Having |
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> personally used Gentoo on this hardware myself in the past, I've |
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> resisted the temptation to drop it sooner but I think it's time to |
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> throw in the towel now. |
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Since there hasn't been an outcry against this announcement so far, it's |
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likely that I will proceed with it at the weekend. |
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> There are probably some packages that aren't typically associated with |
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> Java that will be affected by this. I haven't made a list but I |
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> suspect it doesn't contain anything majorly important. Thankfully |
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> LibreOffice no longer has a hard dependency on Java. |
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The list of casualties can now be seen in: |
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https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/638 |
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Other than some fairly obvious ones like Vuze and Tomcat, there aren't |
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really any packages that I would consider majorly important being |
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dropped. mysql-workbench is in the list but the latest ebuild has been |
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adjusted to not depend on Java. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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