[gentoo-amd64] Java Firefox plugins

[Peter Humphrey]

Time for another problem  :-(

On this newly installed system (amd64, not ~amd64) I have both 32- and 
64-bit Firefox browsers, and I can't get java plugged into either of them.

$ eselect java-nsplugin list
Available 32-bit Java browser plugins
Available 64-bit Java browser plugins
$ java-config-1 -L
The following JDKs are available for generation-1:
*)      Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03]
$ java-config-2 -L
The following VMs are available for generation-2:
1)      Blackdown JDK 1.4.2.03 [blackdown-jdk-1.4.2]
2)      Sun JDK 1.5.0.11 [sun-jdk-1.5]
*)      Sun JRE 1.6.0.01 [sun-jre-bin-1.6]
$ grep -r nsplugin /etc/* 2> /dev/null
/etc/make.conf: logrotate mono  mp3 mpeg nls nptl nsplugin nvidia ogg opengl 
pdf png sdl smp spell svg truetype unicode usb
/etc/make.profile/no-multilib/package.mask:net-www/nspluginwrapper

(That make.conf line is a continuation of the USE= line. I don't believe 
this is a no-multilib system.)

$ ls -l /etc/make.profile
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 50 2007-07-09 
17:56 /etc/make.profile -> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2007.0
$ sudo emerge -1av sun-jre-bin blackdown-jdk sun-jdk

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.6.0.01-r1  USE="X alsa (-nsplugin)" 0 
kB
[ebuild   R   ] dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03-r15  USE="-doc (-nsplugin)" 
0 kB
[ebuild   R   ] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.11  USE="X alsa -doc -examples -jce 
(-nsplugin)" 0 kB

Any ideas on why I get (-nsplugin) on all these? I have USE=nsplugin 
in /etc/make.conf, but it's being overridden. What's doing that? Have I 
inadvertently got no-multilib somehow? I've followed the java upgrade guide 
and its friends, but they shed no light on this one.

-- 
Rgds
Peter.
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