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Setting the headless-awt USE flag on icedtea-bin worked fine. |
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Thank you again for the help. |
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On 20 February 2016 at 19:22, James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:09:47 +0000 |
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> Matthew Smith <maaattss@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I now understand that eclipse-ecj is a requirement of Tomcat, however |
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>> I do not understand why it requires X11. |
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>> After removing the alsa, cups and gtk use flags from icedtea-bin, |
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>> emerge still wants to pull in X11 and an assortment of packages |
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>> related to X11. |
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>> Do you have any ideas on how I can emerge tomcat without bringing in |
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>> X? I'd rather keep my server headless. |
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> |
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> Set the headless-awt USE flag against icedtea-bin. Note the description. |
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> Don't install the X backend for AWT, needed by some GUIs |
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> (used to be X flag) |
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> Admittedly it is unusual to set a flag to *not* install something but |
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> we couldn't really call the flag headful-awt or non-headless-awt. This |
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> name was chosen with input from upstream. |
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> We stopped using the X flag because in the case of oracle-jdk-bin, both |
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> AWT and JavaFX require X11. We needed to be able to differentiate |
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> between these and we wanted to keep the flags consistent across the |
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> different JVM packages. |
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> |
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> -- |
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> James Le Cuirot (chewi) |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer |
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