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On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 10:53:08 -0500 |
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Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 02/02/2017 10:51 AM, William L. Thomson Jr. wrote: |
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> > On Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:36:51 AM EST Michael Orlitzky |
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> > wrote: |
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> >> Why does dev-java/icedtea try to pull in GTK (and thus X) |
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> >> on a headless server? That stuff belongs in a desktop profile, not |
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> >> in the base one. |
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> > In that specific case it cannot be avoided. |
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> Yes it can. I just have to waste my time unsetting the stupid USE flag |
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> that's on for no reason =P |
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Actually he's right. Java can obviously be used without GTK and that's |
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something we support but upstream hasn't taken the time to make it |
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possible to build without it. Apparently that isn't a trivial thing to |
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do. |
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In my earlier mail, I was only talking about runtime. If you really |
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want to avoid GTK on a server then you should stick to one of the -bin |
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packages. Hopefully Java 9 will improve on this. |
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James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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