Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 09:18:12 -0300 From: Fernan Aguero <fernan@iib.unsam.edu.ar> To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: java without X11? Message-ID: <20060504121812.GA94022@iib.unsam.edu.ar>
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Hi! I was setting up a headless (no X11, no GUI) box and had to install java (required by apache-ant and by a java code that interacts with an underlying postgresql database). I want this box to run only the base system (cut down to only essential daemons/processes) and one application (postgresql + associated perl/java layers). I was installing diablo-jdk15 from a package ... and followed the warning about a missing required dependency (xorg-libraries). Even though I didn't want X11, it would just be the libraries ... so I went ahead. I was then surprised when xorg-libraries in turn pulled freetype, fontconfig, pkgconfig (isn't this a gnome thing?), libdrm ... too much X11 stuff for my taste. Perhaps I could have ignored the warning altogether and keep jdk15 installed without xorg-libraries? Anyone did this? If yes, I could go now and pkg_delete all X11 stuff ... A quick browse through other jdk ports show that they all (by default) require X11 either directly or through inclusion of some motif dependency. I know that a lot of java apps depend on GUI functionality provided by the language, but is this java+X11 a thing that cannot be separated? (i.e. X11 is rooted too deep into java) or maybe it could be separated and we could have an optional WITHOUT_X11 in the various jdk ports? Thanks, Fernan
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