Re: [gentoo-java] Emerging Tomcat without Eclipse

[Claudio Roberto França Pereira]

Use emerge with the -t option to show the tree of dependencies, and it will
help you understand what is pulling xorg into the list of packages to be
merged.
On Feb 20, 2016 4:10 PM, "Matthew Smith" <maaattss@×××××.com> wrote:

> I now understand that eclipse-ecj is a requirement of Tomcat, however
> I do not understand why it requires X11.
> After removing the alsa, cups and gtk use flags from icedtea-bin,
> emerge still wants to pull in X11 and an assortment of packages
> related to X11.
> Do you have any ideas on how I can emerge tomcat without bringing in
> X? I'd rather keep my server headless.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> On 20 February 2016 at 18:02, James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
> > On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:43:13 +0000
> > Matthew Smith <maaattss@×××××.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to install the Tomcat server (specifically
> >> www-servers/tomcat-8.0.30:8::gentoo).
> >> However, it depends on eclipse-ecj -- I am unsure of the reasoning
> >> behind this, but it is quite annoying because emerging this would
> >> bring in X and many other unwated packages.
> >
> > eclipse-ecj is not the whole of Eclipse but just the Java compiler it
> > uses internally. It has long been a requirement of Tomcat. It is very
> > small and carries no dependencies that you wouldn't already get from
> > Tomcat itself.
> >
> > --
> > James Le Cuirot (chewi)
> > Gentoo Linux Developer
>
>