Working with xdg-app application bundles

> Why was it necessary to remove Java from LibreOffice for XDG?

Because it's a design goal of the LibreOffice project to get rid of the dependency on Java?

At the moment, the only reason Java is *needed* in LO, is because the old default database is written in Java. They're moving that over to Firebird (I'm not sure whether the default is FB yet or not).

But if you've ever tried to build LO, it has a horrendous mass of dependencies - as was mentioned earlier, it is big enough and complicated enough to seriously stress most toolchains. A lot of the work of simplifying LO is also going towards trying to reduce the horrendous amount of dependencies. Java is one of the casualties :-)

Cheers,
Wol