Il giorno lun 4 mar 2019 alle ore 20:41 Bernd Eckenfels
<[email protected]> ha scritto:
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> Hello,
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> Philip Race wrote:
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> > This is getting into "why doesn't my app run if I remove
> > things it needs to run ?" territory.
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> Yes and no, the errors are caused by missing dependency declarations in 
> common OS as well as undocumented requirements – no file delete caused those 
> errors.
>

I agree with Phil here.

Also, when you use the system RPM it should have a require dependency
on one core x11 font package. Nevertheless, this is not a bug, but a
user misconfiguration.

> > A headless environment does not mean that fonts aren't needed.
> > Headless environments are used to do text rendering.
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> Agree.
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> > So whilst we could have a discussion about what form the error
> > should take, at some point you should get an error.
>
> But:
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> Different Java versions produce different types of throwables, Errors and 
> Runtime exceptions.
> There is no specification which one can be expected (and catching Throwable 
> is Pretty ugly in Terms of not suppressing real VM Errors)
> A NPE Looks like a condition which should not happen
>

I think this is because different versions fail at different place?

Cheers,
Mario


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