| 1 |
On Sun, Sep 11 2011, Philip Webb wrote: |
| 2 |
|
| 3 |
> 110910 Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
| 4 |
>> I converted two machines from icedtea (java6) to oracle-jdk-bin (java7). |
| 5 |
>> I did in effect |
| 6 |
>> emerge --depclean icedtea icedtea-web =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 |
| 7 |
>> On one machine portage now claims that I basically don't need java |
| 8 |
>> (see the output of --depclean below). Can this be right? |
| 9 |
>> |
| 10 |
>> dev-java/ant-nodeps |
| 11 |
>> selected: 1.8.1 |
| 12 |
>> protected: none |
| 13 |
>> omitted: none |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> *** remainder snipped *** |
| 16 |
> |
| 17 |
> I recently removed Java from my system: all I seem to have lost |
| 18 |
> is direct access to the help files in LibreOffice, |
| 19 |
> which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. |
| 20 |
> |
| 21 |
> You can check each package in your list with 'emerge -cpv <pkg>' |
| 22 |
> & see what it says requires it: if they only support one another, |
| 23 |
> you can fairly safely remove them all. |
| 24 |
|
| 25 |
Thanks. I did the check and then let depclean remove them. |
| 26 |
allan |
Archives