On Sun, Sep 11 2011, Philip Webb wrote: > 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.
Thanks. I did the check and then let depclean remove them. allan
