On Sat, 9 Jan 2016 23:10:43 +0000 James Le Cuirot <ch...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I'm mulling over the idea of dropping Java on 32-bit ppc. Having > personally used Gentoo on this hardware myself in the past, I've > resisted the temptation to drop it sooner but I think it's time to > throw in the towel now. Since there hasn't been an outcry against this announcement so far, it's likely that I will proceed with it at the weekend. > There are probably some packages that aren't typically associated with > Java that will be affected by this. I haven't made a list but I > suspect it doesn't contain anything majorly important. Thankfully > LibreOffice no longer has a hard dependency on Java. The list of casualties can now be seen in: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/638 Other than some fairly obvious ones like Vuze and Tomcat, there aren't really any packages that I would consider majorly important being dropped. mysql-workbench is in the list but the latest ebuild has been adjusted to not depend on Java. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
