Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice and pasting HTML from web pages.

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On 03/03/20 09:36, Michael wrote:
> As a rule I do not have java on my systems.  Before you go recompiling LO to
> take USE=java out, note that LO uses java for a number of plugins and without
> it they won't work.  For example, some of database plugins used in LO Base to
> open and edit SQL databases rely on java.  It's been years since I edited
> database tables with LO, so I have no use for it at present and this is why
> I've taken it out.  YMMV.

Java in LO is deprecated. Unfortunately, the old database they are
trying to upgrade from was written in Java, so actually moving forward
and dropping the Java dependency has turned out to be a rather bigger
job than planned ...

Cheers,
Wol