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On Mon 15 August 2011 07:17:55 Philip Webb did opine thusly: |
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> I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 |
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> & found it wants to install a long list of deps, |
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> many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. |
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> As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs |
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> to see which were part of Java & why they seemed to be needed. |
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> Not a few proved to be unnecessary today, |
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> but the rest depend on 4 underlying pkgs, |
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> ie Libreoffice Cups Libidn (for KDE 3 , which I want) Db (for |
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> Libreoffice). |
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> If I remove 'java' from make.conf , |
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> which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ? |
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> Is there anything else I've overlooked ? |
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I removed java from my USE for LO (plus gnome and gtktoo) and have not |
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yet seen any ill-effects. |
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The last time I read a definitive statement on Java for OOo was early |
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in the 2.0 series, then it mentioned database connectivity as the |
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prime thing that used it. That's connectivity as in Base, the Access- |
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like db front-end thingy |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |