On Tuesday 09 December 2003 09:53, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Tuesday 09 December 2003 07:00, Luke-Jr wrote:
> > On Monday 08 December 2003 09:41 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > > Speaking of the java USE flag, I would suggest that a new java-dev flag
> > > should still add gcj to gcc. If a java developer doesn't want gcj,
> > > that's a per-package customization issue that will be fully supported
> > > in portage-ng (and 2.0.50?)
> >
> > Shouldn't gcj be enabled simply by java-user? How else are they going to
> > emerge/compile a Java pkg?
>
> I haven't installed many java-based packages from source - only one that I
> can remember. It required virtual/jdk and pulled in blackdown. I figured
> all others would be the same. If they're not, that is simply another
> indication of the same problem.

Just did some grepping of the portage tree and couldn't find any others that 
were different. Many packages use virtual/jre instead but they don't compile 
java source files at all.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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