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Am Montag 15 August 2011, 13:51:42 schrieb Mick: |
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> On Monday 15 Aug 2011 12:21:13 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: |
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> > On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: |
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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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> > > |
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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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> > |
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> > You'll lose the ability to run java applets, commonly found on the web |
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> > for many critical things. |
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> Unless you care to explain what you define as a web "critical" thing, I will |
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> continue to run my boxen without Java - just as I have been doing for at |
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> least 8 years so far ... ;-) |
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some people use lynx or w3m on a virtual terminal and are happy. That does not |
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make them a good example of usual user behaviour. |
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