Re: Emerging Tomcat without Eclipse

Setting the headless-awt USE flag on icedtea-bin worked fine.

Thank you again for the help.

On 20 February 2016 at 19:22, James Le Cuirot <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:09:47 +0000
> Matthew Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I now understand that eclipse-ecj is a requirement of Tomcat, however
>> I do not understand why it requires X11.
>> After removing the alsa, cups and gtk use flags from icedtea-bin,
>> emerge still wants to pull in X11 and an assortment of packages
>> related to X11.
>> Do you have any ideas on how I can emerge tomcat without bringing in
>> X? I'd rather keep my server headless.
>
> Set the headless-awt USE flag against icedtea-bin. Note the description.
>
>   Don't install the X backend for AWT, needed by some GUIs
>   (used to be X flag)
>
> Admittedly it is unusual to set a flag to *not* install something but
> we couldn't really call the flag headful-awt or non-headless-awt. This
> name was chosen with input from upstream.
>
> We stopped using the X flag because in the case of oracle-jdk-bin, both
> AWT and JavaFX require X11. We needed to be able to differentiate
> between these and we wanted to keep the flags consistent across the
> different JVM packages.
>
> --
> James Le Cuirot (chewi)
> Gentoo Linux Developer