Apparently, though unproven, at 21:18 on Wednesday 03 November 2010, Dirk Uys did opine thusly:
> Hi Everyone > > I wanted to install freemind, did a emerge -uavNDt freemind, this is what I > get: [snip mind-boggling amount of emerge output...] > The indentation is a little weird in the pasted output, but as far as I can > deduce freemind wants dev-java/fop, fop wants dev-java/avalon-framework and > avalon-framework want dev-java/avalon-logkit, avalon-logkit wants > ava-virtuals/jms and jms wants dev-java/glassfish-jms-api. > > Which in my mind translate to: I need to install Java Message Service which > is enterprise message oriented middleware in order to get logging going for > some library that is used by freemind!!!! For some reason my mind doesn't > feel free, it feels bogged down. > > It doesn't seem like there are any use flags I can set to avoid this! Is > JMS really an compulsory requirement for avalon-logkit?? > > Can anyone please suggest a mindmap application on gentoo that doesn't rely > on the same enterprise technology my bank is using? Can you get by without pdf and svg support in freemind? You will lose jms but still need to install half of Sun's (oops, sorry - Oracle's) public repos just for java. $ USE="-pdf -svg" emerge -pvt freemind These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-misc/freemind-0.9.0_rc7 USE="-doc -groovy -latex -pdf - svg" 14,714 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/simplyhtml-0.13.1 USE="-doc -source" 463 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/gnu-regexp-1.1.4-r2 USE="-doc -source" 161 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/xsd2jibx-0.2a_beta-r2 USE="-doc -source" 939 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/jibx-1.1.5-r1 USE="-doc -source" 6,630 kB [ebuild N ] java-virtuals/stax-api-1-r1 0 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/jgoodies-forms-1.3.0 USE="-doc -examples -source" 1,290 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/commons-lang-2.4 USE="-doc -source -test" 511 kB [ebuild N ] dev-java/javahelp-2.0.02_p46 USE="-doc -examples -source" 6,367 kB Total: 9 packages (9 new), Size of downloads: 31,072 kB -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
