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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 01:01 +0100, Tomasz Buchert wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> I'm new in Gentoo and new in Java. I have already emerged Blackdown JDK |
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> but I'd like to emerge Sun JDK too. And here the problem begins. |
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> I'm not interested in JDK 1.5 (it's considered unstable as far as I |
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> know). |
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FYI: There is nothing "unstable" about JDK 1.5 (or Java 5). It is the |
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recommended "production" platform/runtime of choice for many large |
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vendors and IT shops, and has been for some time now. It has simply |
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been package-masked here at Gentoo because there have been some |
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lingering ebuilds that didn't compile cleanly with it. Hopefully it is |
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going to be unmasked VERY soon. |
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> I believe that 1.4 will be enough for a novice. On my portage |
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> this package is masked. Is it risky to emerge it? If it is not why it is |
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> masked? |
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I think Eddy answered this for you already, but let us know if you still |
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have questions/concerns. |
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Greg |
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