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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: |
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> Why do we have ebuilds for dev-java/sun-j2sdk and dev-java/sun-jdk? These |
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> both currently point to the same Sun Java VM and SDK, 1.4.0. Has this |
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> created any dependency issues in the portage tree? |
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The former builds the Sun JDK from sources (or attempts to, it's not |
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finished). The latter is an ebuild for the binary that Sun distribute. |
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According to Sun, the sources they provide are not the same as the ones |
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they package in their binary. They are not up-front specific about the |
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differences, but I'd assume they also some third-party licensed stuff. |
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The original goal of the j2sdk was to have a proper VM plugin for mozilla |
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when compiled with gcc-3.2. |
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Kind regards, |
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Karl T |
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