On 08/15/2011 04:47 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > I looked at updating to the latest Libreoffice 3.4.2.3 > & found it wants to install a long list of deps, > many of which seem to be caused by my 'java' USE flag. > As a result, I checked my home-made list of installed pkgs > to see which were part of Java & why they seemed to be needed. > Not a few proved to be unnecessary today, > but the rest depend on 4 underlying pkgs, > ie Libreoffice Cups Libidn (for KDE 3 , which I want) Db (for Libreoffice). > > If I remove 'java' from make.conf , > which features will I lose in LO Cups KDE3 ? > Is there anything else I've overlooked ? >
You'll lose the ability to run java applets, commonly found on the web for many critical things. -- Nilesh Govindarajan http://nileshgr.com
