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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86*
From:       James Le Cuirot <chewi () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2015-03-29 22:06:14
Message-ID: 20150329230614.0584cfc2 () symphony ! aura-online ! co ! uk
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On Sun, 29 Mar 2015 17:49:50 +0200
Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > Michał, as already discussed with Pacho [1], emul-linux-x86-jna can
> > just go away entirely. Nothing requires it and it doesn't make any
> > sense without emul-linux-x86-java though I note that isn't in the
> > list either; I thought it would be. Java herd is struggling with
> > the regular VM packages enough as it is, we could really do without
> > supporting this one as well. I very much doubt that end users need
> > it any more. Any objections to removing it?
> > 
> > [1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474464#c5  
> 
> I don't really want to touch Java stuff, so I'd prefer if you handled
> that yourself. That said, feel free to add it to the same p.mask
> entry. Just make sure not to break the dependency graph :).

Okay. It'll also mean killing off sun-j2me-bin and proguard, which we
seem to be cool with (very dead), and getting novell-groupwise-client to
always use the bundled JRE. I need dilfridge's input on the latter.

-- 
James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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