Jörg Schaible wrote:

> Kasun Gajasinghe wrote:
> 
>> Hi Jörg, and Robert,
>> 
>>>> FWIW one unresolved challenge for linux distributions with the rise of
>>>> bytecode languages (such as Java) is that compressed bytecodes are not
>>>> binaries in the usual sense (platform dependent machine executable
>>>> machine code). i know that it's a hard thing for the linux community
>>>> to hear but it's about time that the community acknowledged that these
>>>> languages are now mainstream and stop trying to force them into a
>>>> inappropriate provisioning model.
>> 
>> So... what exactly are you suggesting? Switch in to using binaries
>> instead of building from source paradigm?
> 
> For Java: Yes. Use flags are still useful for dropping optional deps. I
> recommended that already years ago.

I really meant years ...
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.java/43

 - Jörg