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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@...>
Subject: Re: Re: JRE - how to install one?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2006 08:15:23 -0500
On Sunday 03 September 2006 14:39, "Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@...> wrote 
about '[gentoo-amd64]  Re: JRE - how to install one?':
> I don't have a Java installed as
> none of the options Gentoo provides for that are freedomware and I don't
> need it enough to bother researching it further.

Actually, kaffe (GPL-2 licenced) is now an option to satisfy many packages 
dependencies on a 1.4 (generation-1) jvm/jre/jdk.

We still don't have a freedomware 1.5+ (generation-2) jvm/jre/jdk for 
Gentoo, AFAIK.

-- 
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh
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