110910 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I converted two machines from icedtea (java6) to oracle-jdk-bin (java7). > I did in effect > emerge --depclean icedtea icedtea-web =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 =virtual/jdk-1.6.0 > On one machine portage now claims that I basically don't need java > (see the output of --depclean below). Can this be right? > > dev-java/ant-nodeps > selected: 1.8.1 > protected: none > omitted: none
*** remainder snipped *** I recently removed Java from my system: all I seem to have lost is direct access to the help files in LibreOffice, which have a fully adequate PDF substitute. You can check each package in your list with 'emerge -cpv <pkg>' & see what it says requires it: if they only support one another, you can fairly safely remove them all. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
