Gentoo Archives: gentoo-releng

From: Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>
To: gentoo-releng@l.g.o
Cc: carpaski@g.o, Pieter Van den Abeele <pvdabeel@g.o>, Jochen Maes <sejo@g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-releng] multiple virtuals
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 2004 13:40:35
Message-Id: 4D8C5458-8962-11D8-A3FD-0003938E7E46@gentoo.org
1 Hi Nick,
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3 Is it possible to give me an eta for the multiple-virtuals portage
4 feature? Java on ppc urgently needs that feature implemented, because
5 otherwise we are stuck with jdk-1.3, which unfortunately is being
6 realized by a discontinued product (blackdown).
7 Given that jdk is already at 1.5, the current ppc java developer fears
8 that gentoo on ppc is not going to be taken seriously anymore by people
9 working professionally with java. Unless of course when we could bump
10 our jdk to 1.4 but that would require multiple-virtuals.
11
12 Best regards,
13
14 Pieter Van den Abeele
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Re: [gentoo-releng] multiple virtuals John Davis <zhen@g.o>