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On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 22:56:27 -0700 |
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Bryan Gardiner <bog@××××××.net> wrote: |
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> On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 18:22:10 +0400 |
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> Евгений Пермяков <permeakra@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Can someone tell me, why my gentoo server wants X header to build |
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> > icedtea jdk if USE="... -X ..." ? Ok, I understand that it is |
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> > because maintainers wrote ebuild that requires X header |
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> > unquestionable. But why they did so and can be something done about |
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> > it? Do not want to have *-bin* package in system for perfectionism |
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> > reasons. |
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> Hi, |
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> If it helps, it looks like dev-java/icedtea with USE=-X only requires |
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> X to build, not to run. So after installation, the X packages can be |
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> removed by "emerge --ask --depclean --with-bdeps=n packages...". Or |
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> leave off "packages..." to see all installed packages that are not |
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> needed for world packages to run (which should include X). |
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> Of course you'll have to reinstall them if you want to rebuild |
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> icedtea... |
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Speaking somewhat generically: |
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Turns out this is fairly common in the real world. Huge numbers of java |
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apps have some form of config utility and most of them are (sadly) not |
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headless. They are gui-driven and that's the only way they can be |
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configured. We sysadmins don't like this, but there's not much we can |
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do about it. |
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So we compromise. It's fairly normal to install Xlibs on a box running |
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java and export the display. This appears to be what the |
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icedtea maintainers settled on. |
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At least the maintainers used their brain and require Xlibs, not a full |
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blown running X server. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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