Re: [Libreoffice] defaulting to --without-java ... (?)

> - Because I dislike to rely on runtimes that we cannot redistribute on

Aren't you mixing up two orthogonal issues here? Whether to use Java when building LibreOffice, and 
whether to have and distribute parts of the LibreOffice end product requiring a Java runtime.

Isn't Java used during the build also for some *processing* of data? (Which presumably then is 
optional, if it is possible to build without Java on the build machine.) I.e., in theory we could 
keep that even in a potential future when the end install set of LibreOffice that is run on the 
end-user machine would contain nothing that requires Java.

And in theory one could also imagine a situation where such processing is done centrally and the 
results made available to developers, and thus one could build LibreOffice with no Java on the 
build machine, but there would still be parts of LibreOffice written in Java and it would thus 
require Java for full functionality on the end-user machine.

(Please, before you start screaming "of course no use of pre-made binaries is acceptable for Java 
or anything else, everything should be built from source all the way", note that my argumentation 
above is from a theoretical point of view.)

--tml