[gentoo-user] openjdk?

[Paul B. Henson]

So Oracle java has a crappy license now, and I see on the dev list
they're even talking about removing it from portage. However, openjdk
has no stable version, and the ebuild contains:

if use gentoo-vm ; then
	ewarn "WARNING! You have enabled the gentoo-vm USE flag, making
	this JDK"
	ewarn "recognised by the system. This will almost certainly
	break things."

Which doesn't build confidence as far as using it 8-/. icedtea is pretty
old. What are people doing for java needs currently? Abusing the Oracle
license? Running old icedtea versions? Ignoring the openjdk warning?

I've been running the redhat openjdk build under Centos for a while and
it seems quite stable, why does Gentoo still consider it not production
ready?

Thanks...