Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Richard Hughes" <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" <devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 1:28:12 PM >> Subject: Re: Another questionable dependency chain -- libreoffice-writer installs log4j-chainsaw >> >> On 30 January 2014 11:17, Aleksandar Kurtakov <akurtako@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Clarification the actual chain is >> > .... >> > java-headless->rhino->jline->jansi->hawtjni->xbean->avalon-framework->log4j >> >> Ahh, thanks for working that one out. Java isn't my area of expertise. >> >> > It's time to prune such things out of the distro. >> >> So what can we prune for F21? Does xbean actually require >> avalon-framework -- or does hawtjni actually need xbean? etc.. > > Second thought - Fedora 21 makes OpenJDK 1.8 default which should have nashorn as a replacement for rhino and we can get rid of rhino from the openjdk deps. Mikolaj has been testing JDK 8 these past few weeks and the results don't seem encouraging for us. There are *a ton* of compilation failures, mostly in javadocs. I am not saying this is not doable, but it will involve *a lot* of work in any case. One blasphemous suggestion was to just get rid of javadoc generation :-) -- Stanislav Ochotnicky <sochotnicky@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Developer Experience PGP: 7B087241 Red Hat Inc. http://cz.redhat.com
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