Carsten Lohrke wrote: > On Sonntag, 22. Februar 2009, Petteri Räty wrote: >> java-check-environment > > Running it, I got the message everything would be fine, but after > uninstalling > Sun's 1.4 JDK, Portage told me it'll be still needed. So after a bit package > masking and uninstalling >
Did you read the email? The the new java-check-environment is not in yet and doesn't the news item say that 1.4 might still be needed? > dev-java/sun-jdk:1.4 > =dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.4* > virtual/jdk:1.4 > virtual/jre:1.4 > > I got > > For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge > man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > (dependency required by "dev-java/tomcat-servlet-api-5.5.27" [installed]) > (dependency required by "dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.4-r2" [installed]) > (dependency required by "@world" [argument]) > > and after looking at the tomcat-servlet-api ebuild I finally found that > setting a java5 use flag and re-emerging the ebuild would be required, et > voila... > We don't want to turn on java5 use flag by default because of http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161622 Any way in your case the user is expected to decide that he still needs 1.4 and leave it installed. > > It's really great that the Java team managed to convert all packages, but I > do > not call the above procedure user friendly. ;) > Well nothing breaks if you don't do anything. Guess that should be reflected better in the news item. You will just have extra stuff in your $PATH most likely etc. Regards, Petteri
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