Re: [gentoo-amd64] Depencies that I do not understand

[Yuri Pimenov]

Dario Cavallaro wrote:

Well, I guess here's the answer
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-java-list/2006-June/msg00056.html

Imagine if you needed Tomcat5 on a production server but emerge installs 
eclipse-sdk and
so on after tomcat :) That's why they splitted it into separate ebuilds 
- tomcat requires ecj only,
not the whole sdk.

> Hi all. Do I need really eclipse-ecj if I have installed eclipse-sdk?
> Here is what I have as depencies:
>
> emerge --deep --update --ask world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies -
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.1*" have
> been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.1-r2 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
> - dev-java/eclipse-ecj-3.1-r13 (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page or
> refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> (dependency required by "www-servers/tomcat-5.5.17" [ebuild])
>
>
>
> !!! Problem resolving dependencies for www-servers/tomcat
> !!! Depgraph creation failed.
>
> This is what I have installed:
>
> eix -I eclipse
> * dev-util/eclipse-sdk
>      Available versions:  !2.1.3-r5 !3.0.0-r3 3.0.1-r2 3.0.2 3.1.1 3.1.2-r2
>      Installed:           3.1.2-r2
>      Homepage:            http://www.eclipse.org/
>      Description:         Eclipse Tools Platform
>
>
> Found 1 matches
>
> I think eclipse-sdk is the package that compiles all eclipse's
> functionalities (something like the difference between kdebase-meta and
> kdebase, is it right?)
>
> I would to understand why this depencie is there, thanks!
>  --
> Saluti
>
> Dario Cavallaro
>

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