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On Thursday, February 2, 2017 11:13:40 AM EST Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 02/02/2017 11:09 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: |
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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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> Apologies: I was actually thinking of icedtea-bin... which ALSO pulls in |
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> GTK due to IUSE defaults. |
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If you look at dev-java/icedtea ebuild you will see |
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# Gtk+ will move to COMMON_DEP in time; PR1982 |
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I cannot find PR1982 referenced to link. But shows that it is needed and causes |
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issues without being set. |
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William L. Thomson Jr. |
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