On Monday 15 Aug 2011 12:21:13 Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > 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.
Unless you care to explain what you define as a web "critical" thing, I will continue to run my boxen without Java - just as I have been doing for at least 8 years so far ... ;-) -- Regards, Mick
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