Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:50:58
Message-Id: 2170816.ci3J6QaXrL@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] who needs Java ? by Mick
1 Am Montag 15 August 2011, 13:51:42 schrieb Mick:
2 > On Monday 15 Aug 2011 12:21:13 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
3 > > On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
4 > > > I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3
5 > > > & found it wants to install a long list of deps,
6 > > > many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag.
7 > > > As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs
8 > > > to see which were part of Java & why they seemed to be needed.
9 > > > Not a few proved to be unnecessary today,
10 > > > but the rest depend on 4 underlying pkgs,
11 > > > ie Libreoffice Cups Libidn (for KDE 3 , which I want) Db (for
12 > > > Libreoffice).
13 > > >
14 > > > If I remove 'java' from make.conf ,
15 > > > which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ?
16 > > > Is there anything else I've overlooked ?
17 > >
18 > > You'll lose the ability to run java applets, commonly found on the web
19 > > for many critical things.
20 >
21 > Unless you care to explain what you define as a web "critical" thing, I will
22 > continue to run my boxen without Java - just as I have been doing for at
23 > least 8 years so far ... ;-)
24
25 some people use lynx or w3m on a virtual terminal and are happy. That does not
26 make them a good example of usual user behaviour.
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