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From: James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Andreas Hüttel" <dilfridge@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86*
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2015 22:06:34
Message-Id: 20150329230614.0584cfc2@symphony.aura-online.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86* by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:49:50 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > > Michał, as already discussed with Pacho [1], emul-linux-x86-jna can
5 > > just go away entirely. Nothing requires it and it doesn't make any
6 > > sense without emul-linux-x86-java though I note that isn't in the
7 > > list either; I thought it would be. Java herd is struggling with
8 > > the regular VM packages enough as it is, we could really do without
9 > > supporting this one as well. I very much doubt that end users need
10 > > it any more. Any objections to removing it?
11 > >
12 > > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474464#c5
13 >
14 > I don't really want to touch Java stuff, so I'd prefer if you handled
15 > that yourself. That said, feel free to add it to the same p.mask
16 > entry. Just make sure not to break the dependency graph :).
17
18 Okay. It'll also mean killing off sun-j2me-bin and proguard, which we
19 seem to be cool with (very dead), and getting novell-groupwise-client to
20 always use the bundled JRE. I need dilfridge's input on the latter.
21
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23 James Le Cuirot (chewi)
24 Gentoo Linux Developer