Thanks for all of your responses. I did successfully remove it, with no ill side effects to be seen so far. In my particular case, I don't use java, or, apparently, other things that depended on X11. Not sure it was actually necessary to remove (it wasn't) but at the very least I did free up a little bit of disk space. :-)
Rick Moen wrote: > Quoting wirelessduck--- via Dng (dng@lists.dyne.org): >>> On 3 Oct 2020, at 00:12, Dimitri Minaev via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: >> >>> Because of Swing, I suppose. Java allows one to create GUI apps, >>> too. >> >> The headless jre package also has X11 dependencies. > > Though I'm certainly aboard for avoiding and eliminating bloat, I'll > point out that running selected X11 executables from a headless host, > e.g., tunneled over 'ssh -Y' to a remote X server, is a very, very > standard use case. This of course includes Java bytecode that makes > X11 calls. > _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
