Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64?
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 02:04:11
Message-Id: 58965d8a0901231804w62fa0675p2ec7e02e5ccb380@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64? by Mark Knecht
1 On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > After hearing a little bit about icedtea I thought I might give it a
3 > try. I removed the Sun java stuff and tried to emerge but am not sure
4 > how to handle the error message.
5 >
6 > Also, which of the use flags make sense for a desktop machine? Is
7 > nsplugin supported for amd64? javascript?
8 >
9 > Thanks,
10 > Mark
11 >
12 >
13 > lightning ~ # emerge -pv icedtea6
14 >
15 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
16 >
17 > Calculating dependencies... done!
18 >
19 >
20 > [ebuild N ] dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2 USE="-cacao -debug -doc
21 > -examples -javascript -nsplugin -pulseaudio -shark -zero"
22 >
23 > * Error: circular dependencies:
24 >
25 > ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') depends on
26 > ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/icedtea6-1.3.1-r2', 'merge') (hard)
27 >
28 > * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
29 > * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.
30 > lightning ~ #
31
32 I wonder if you need to emerge virtual/icedtea-jdk instead? never tried it

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-amd64] icedtea java on amd64? Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>