Re: [gentoo-user] 64Bit Proc

2005-03-31 Thread Boudewijn Ector
Patrick Marquetecken wrote:
Hi,
Can i install without problems Gentoo on the new Dell machines with a
64bit Xeon processor?
TIA
Patrick
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why should there be problems?
You might encounter some custom hardware, but drivers for these 
components should be already on the internet (if you should need them). 
I would just give it a shot ;-)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Why do I need blackdown-jdk?

2005-03-30 Thread Boudewijn Ector
Niklas Herder wrote:
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Robert S wrote:
 

I have a gentoo amd64 system with a number of servers running and KDE. 
I'd like to get rid of blackdown-jdk to free up disk space, and I don't
use it.

When I do $ equery depends blackdown-jdk I get:
[ Searching for packages depending on blackdown-jdk... ]
$
   

This is because java is a virtual dependency.
Try equery depends virtual/jre.
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Can't you use -java in USE flags to disable java support (so you won't 
need a jre...) ?
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