Re: [gentoo-dev] icedtea requiring X libs to build was -> Guidelines for IUSE defaults

[Michael Orlitzky]

On 02/02/2017 11:09 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote:
>
> Actually he's right. Java can obviously be used without GTK and that's
> something we support but upstream hasn't taken the time to make it
> possible to build without it. Apparently that isn't a trivial thing to
> do.
>
> In my earlier mail, I was only talking about runtime. If you really
> want to avoid GTK on a server then you should stick to one of the -bin
> packages. Hopefully Java 9 will improve on this.
>

Apologies: I was actually thinking of icedtea-bin... which ALSO pulls in
GTK due to IUSE defaults.