Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-14 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 08:07:43PM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: To find out why portage wants the JDK, run `emerge -pv --depclean virtual/jdk`. Repeat until you find @world or something looking familiar. I bet you have LibreOffice installed with USE=java. There is an old thread from earlier

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Andrea Conti
Or maybe the build system is stable enough for general use. If someone can share some experience with the source build, I'd like to hear about it. The build system of the source build, of course. Well, it works, and my impression is that it's a bit faster than icedtea-6 (the build system, I

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: (i) What is icedtea-web? If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point right at the start of the page that icedtea-web is mostly Java Web

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Willie Wong
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:00:51AM +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Well, while Willie picks himself up after being slammed like this (Had bad day, Alan?), I might add that the only reason why portage wants to emerge icedtea and icedtea-bin is that apparently virtual/jre:1.7 has been keyworded.

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Fredric Johansson
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:  (i) What is icedtea-web? If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s output you posted, you would have seen in the very first

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-11 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.11.2011 11:16, schrieb Willie Wong: On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:01:56PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: (i) What is icedtea-web? If you had actually clicked on the homepage link in the emerge -s output you posted, you would have seen in the very first bullet point right at the start of the

[gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and now am getting a bit confused. Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today, portage wants to [ebuild U ] dev-java/icedtea-bin-6.1.10.4 [1.10.4] [ebuild N

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:35 -0500 Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: Hi list, I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and now am getting a bit confused. Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in fact, I am running icedtea-bin-1.10.4. Today,

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 10.11.2011 22:01, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:35 -0500 Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: Hi list, I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and now am getting a bit confused. Currently my computer is using the icedtea jdk, in

Re: [gentoo-user] java java everywhere

2011-11-10 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 11.11.2011 00:00, schrieb Florian Philipp: Am 10.11.2011 22:01, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:02:35 -0500 Willie Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu wrote: Hi list, I've not been keeping up with the developments in the Java world, and now am getting a bit confused.