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From: Karl Trygve Kalleberg <karltk@×××××××.no>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Cc: gentoo-user@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Major updates to Java
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 20:24:23
Message-Id: 20011215042218.747d0e9c.karltk@prosalg.no
1 Hi gang.
2
3 I have started the long-overdue process of updating our handling of
4 Java-based applications. The new scheme will be documented in a few days
5 when all settles down.
6
7 In the meantime, the following packages have been masked out:
8
9 net-www/cocoon-1.8
10 net-www/cocoon-1.8.2
11 net-www/tomcat-3.2.2
12 net-www/tomcat-3.2.1
13 net-www/tomcat-4.0.1
14 net-www/jakarta-3.1-r2
15 media-libs/pdflib-4.0.1
16 dev-java/ant-1.3
17 dev-java/ant-1.4
18 dev-java/fesi-1
19 dev-java/jaxp-1.1
20 dev-java/jaxp-1.0.1
21 dev-java/jndi-1.2.1-r1
22 dev-java/jsse-1.0.2
23 dev-java/mysql-jdbc-1.2.3-r1
24 dev-lang/swig/swig-1.3_alpha5-r2
25
26 The dev-lang/jdk packages are now gone. Dead. Never to return.
27
28 The new way of specifying reliance on java is to use virtual/jdk or
29 virtual/jre, since there exists more than one good implementation of the
30 jre and the jdk, this made sense.
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32
33 Kind regards,
34
35 Karl T