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110910 Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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> I converted two machines from icedtea (java6) to oracle-jdk-bin (java7). |
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> I did in effect |
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> emerge --depclean icedtea icedtea-web =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 |
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> On one machine portage now claims that I basically don't need java |
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> (see the output of --depclean below). Can this be right? |
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> dev-java/ant-nodeps |
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> selected: 1.8.1 |
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> protected: none |
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> omitted: none |
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I recently removed Java from my system: all I seem to have lost |
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is direct access to the help files in LibreOffice, |
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which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. |
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You can check each package in your list with 'emerge -cpv <pkg>' |
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& see what it says requires it: if they only support one another, |
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you can fairly safely remove them all. |
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