Re: Emerging Tomcat without Eclipse

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On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 17:43:13 +0000
Matthew Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

> I am trying to install the Tomcat server (specifically
> www-servers/tomcat-8.0.30:8::gentoo).
> However, it depends on eclipse-ecj -- I am unsure of the reasoning
> behind this, but it is quite annoying because emerging this would
> bring in X and many other unwated packages.

eclipse-ecj is not the whole of Eclipse but just the Java compiler it
uses internally. It has long been a requirement of Tomcat. It is very
small and carries no dependencies that you wouldn't already get from
Tomcat itself.

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James Le Cuirot (chewi)
Gentoo Linux Developer

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