2014-08-25 12:44 GMT-06:00 James <wirel...@tampabay.rr.com>:
> James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
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>> For openjdk-6-jdk [1] I'm not sure what my options are as it (or a newer
>> version?) is required by mesos-0.19-1. I did see these in portage:
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>> Some discussion and guidance would be keenly appreciated, as I'm not at all
>> up on the current gentoo java issues.
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> Ok, so I found the gentoo java wiki [1].
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> So if I'm comprehending this correctly, icedtea is openjdk it just
> uses 100% open source tools to build the jdk as opposed to the fact
> that openjdk uses proprietary tools to build?
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> I'm still a bit confused on the options for jdk, (openjdk) any
> limitations, gotchas, thnings_to_avoid; so some recommendations
> would be beneficial.
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> James
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> [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Java#Installing_a_JRE.2FJDKs
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Just dropping and idea for your ebuild, you might have this planned
but anyway, I would put something like 'virtual/jdk:1.6' in RDEPEND,
so if things work as they should(but that's not realistic), any of the
java implementations in the tree would provide jdk6 for your ebuild.
