Am Montag 15 August 2011, 13:51:42 schrieb Mick: > 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 ... ;-)
some people use lynx or w3m on a virtual terminal and are happy. That does not make them a good example of usual user behaviour. -- #163933
