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From: Thomas Cort <linuxgeek@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-alpha@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Alpha status Dec 2005
Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:19:39
Message-Id: 3b09e8e90512071319s523b725crf53ca24a757fe519@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-alpha] Alpha status Dec 2005 by Marc Giger
1 > What does overlay mean? virtual/jre and virtual/jdk?
2 A portage overlay is sort of like /usr/portage, but for third party
3 ebuilds. See [1] and [2] for more info. This overlay will include new
4 ebuilds, ebuilds in progress, and existing ebuilds relating to java
5 and sablevm/sablevm-sdk. sablevm-sdk is not in portage yet, but an
6 ebuild for it exists[3]. It provides virtual/jdk, however sablevm-sdk
7 is missing some features (tools.jar) and the ebuild needs some work
8 (for example, if USE="-nogjdoc" then sablevm-sdk depends on antlr
9 which depends on virtual/jdk).
10
11 I'm a student and have exams this week, but starting on Saturday
12 afternoon I'll have a lot more free time for Gentoo stuff. Keep
13 checking my java notes page[4]; when I have an overlay ready I'll post
14 its location there along with re-written and expanded notes.
15
16 [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Installing_3rd_Party_Ebuilds
17 [2] http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Overlays
18 [3] http://gentooexperimental.org/svn/java/gentoo-java-experimental
19 /dev-java/sablevm-sdk/
20 [4] http://mediumbagel.org/java/
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