On Thursday, February 2, 2017 11:13:40 AM EST Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 02/02/2017 11:09 AM, James Le Cuirot wrote: > > Actually he's right. Java can obviously be used without GTK and that's > > something we support but upstream hasn't taken the time to make it > > possible to build without it. Apparently that isn't a trivial thing to > > do. > > > > In my earlier mail, I was only talking about runtime. If you really > > want to avoid GTK on a server then you should stick to one of the -bin > > packages. Hopefully Java 9 will improve on this. > > Apologies: I was actually thinking of icedtea-bin... which ALSO pulls in > GTK due to IUSE defaults.
If you look at dev-java/icedtea ebuild you will see # Gtk+ will move to COMMON_DEP in time; PR1982 I cannot find PR1982 referenced to link. But shows that it is needed and causes issues without being set. -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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